Blows my mind that hard-left people would resist AI since it both allows far more opportunity for direct control of means of production (as it is a time/scale equalizer) and also is the best path toward UBI.

UBI sounds silly to some, but that changes when there's a hundred million people out of work. Especially since AI will carve out from the middle, not from the bottom. That's a LOT of reliably-voting spending power eroding.