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If AI learns to do everything a proletarian does, then there's no incentive to exploit proletarians anymore. If the working class is no longer exploited, it ceases to be working class. If there's no proletariat, there cannot be the bourgeoisie anymore. This means that the "everything" AI would eliminate modern class society. Will we get socialism? We don't know, we never got to study a world where labor was an unlimited resource. In that world, marxist concepts would need to be updated.
So, I think we'd get not socialism but some kind of post-capitalism that we can't really imagine now.
Take a look at industrial farming, you don't need to be able to provide labor or be remotely useful to the bourgeoisie to experience the most horrific torture. You just need to be a defenseless animal to be tortured for essentially just taste pleasure. So will we get paradise with AGI? We don't know for sure yet