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Nothing except cost. If employees cost more than developing and implementing AI, then they will do it.

In preparation for the move to a totally AI driven customer interface (which WILL happen, barring any large scale disaster), legislators needs to implement some solution to keep currency flowing to the people.

If everything except highly skilled professions are automated, there will be a hell of a lot unemployment. Off the top of my head, one potential solution I've heard is that companies should pay wages to robots and those wages will be paid as tax to the government who would redistribute the wealth as universal basic income.

We're surely decades or more from near total automation, but it's worth thinking about as a serious matter as we are living in the robot revolution.