This. The only thing AI will do, at the societal level, if it truly succeeds, is insanely amplify the power imbalance we already suffer under. Thinking that the benefits of AI will be "democratic" is staggeringly naïve.

It's obvious that AI, if it succeeds, will be primarily used to make people, even as physical beings, redundant.

From TFA:

> the more people get fired, the more political pressure there will be to vote for those who will guarantee a certain degree of protection

This is daydreaming. Just look at the US. "Political pressure" is not a thing.

There will be war.