[phil21]

> AI/robots/automation was supposed to usher in some kind of techno-utopia for all the good and bad that it entails.

Depends on which sci-fi and/or literature you've been reading, I suppose?

Plenty written on these subjects where the future does not turn into some techno-utopia. And I've always found these takes on the subject much more compatible with the human condition as I've personally observed it in practice.