For all of the hype of AI eliminating jobs and changing culture, if robots, machines, and AI can take over the job of agricultural workers I think that would do

For all of the hype of AI eliminating jobs and changing culture, if robots, machines, and AI can take over the job of agricultural workers I think that would do more to up-end culture and civilization as we know it than anything else. If you look at the great powers through history it was the destruction of the citizen-farmer dynamic (displaced by slaves acquired through conquest) which destabilized democratic and republican regimes causing them invariably to become aristocratic, oligarchic, and eventually authoritarian one-man-rule regimes. The greatest example that comes to mind is the Roman conquest of Carthage: so many slaves were brought to Italy that citizen-farmers who didn't acquire slave labor disappeared, unable to compete in the marketplace. Many historians point to this as the first domino that destroyed the Roman Republic and made the rise of the Caesars unavoidable.