But doesn't this reduce the required amount of farmland?

There is no “required” amount. More gets produced using the same area, using more people, but keeping these people in poverty because productivity per capita doesn’t increase. Instead the gains from the increased volume of production get captured by an elite. See https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41257-019-0021-y.

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omnicognate 3 hours ago | parent [-]

What corresponds to land in the AI analogy to this?

	▲	layer8 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is no direct analogy, the term has drifted since. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan.

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colordrops 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, the extra farmland gets taken by the AI companies.