Indeed, technology leading to unemployment is happening right now while a Skynet-style AGI is IMO tremendously unlikely.<p>However, &quot;everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared&quot; depends on someone maintaining the machines and the distribution of produce. (Because the opposite of Skynet - an AGI that maintains itself and keeps every human satisfied - is even less likely than Skynet.)<p>And who is going to work for free while keeping everyone else&#x27;s best interests in mind?<p>The fact that, well, nobody would, not really, is somehow  missed by people who blame &quot;capitalism&quot; or whatever instead of blaming human nature.