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The attempts to wholly replace software developers have revealed that the platonic ideal of an AI to the bourgeoisie is a kind of techno-slave capable of everything a human can do but with complete subservience to the whims of the bourgeois controllers and sans all that "ethics" nonsense. Make this webpage pop! It's a logical extension of the replacement of variable capital with constant capital. Automation of mental labor would mean that there would be no need for a sort of well-paid labor aristocracy, and this can be seen both in the software industry and in the pushing of general robotics platforms for use in manufacturing and physical labor field. There have always been tasks that have been ill-suited for the previously existing kinds of automation, which usually boils down to the capabilities of a human to reason, learn, and solve complex tasks (including motor tasks) in novel environments, and the promise of AI seems at first to the bourgeois class to represent an opportunity to replace these laborers, no longer pay them, and thus gain short term profits by undercutting. Though of course as the tendency of the rate of profit to fall shows this has severe long term ramifications. And whether or not this bourgeois ideal AI can actually exist is also an unanswered question (I think the answer is that it can't, myself). But yeah material relations and contradictions of capital or something idk