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Isn't that the point of all innovation though? To reduce labor or QOL improvements.
This is like saying the automobile was invented to put ferriers out of business. Because... Yeah. Sort of.
The AI paradox: It is simultaneously going to destroy the market for human labor because it's just that good while also being completely useless, only good for generating "slop".
If both of these are true, then the only human labor AI is going to replace is that which generates slop. Because... Yeah. Humans do generate a lot of slop without AI. Now slop can be generated and deployed faster than ever before!
Are you a generator of slop, such as:
Your job may be in jeopardy!
It's funny you should mention automobiles, because it's actually a pretty good analogue. Sure, the car itself was probably not invented with some kind of political goal in mind, but the complete redesign of many cities to be car-centric, because "cars are the future!", making people dependent on cars and destroying neighbourhoods to build highways along the way, was (and continues to be) very much a political project.
As for the "paradox", whether or not AI is actually capable at replacing jobs is not that important. What matters is whether or not the pretense that it can (and therefore the pretense that workers don't have any leverage), can be kept up for long enough that the networks workers use to consolidate their leverage, like unions, fall apart. As an example of a similar strategy, see Elon Musk promoting the Hyperloop to prevent the construction of high speed rail.