We've had many decades of technology since Asimov started writing about robots, and we've seen almost all of it used to make the day-to-day experience of the average worker-bee worse. More tracking. More work after hours. More demands to do more with less. Fewer other humans to help you with those things.

We aren't working 4 hour days because we no longer have to spend half the day waiting on things that were slower pre-internet. We're just supposed to deliver more, and oh, work more hours too since now you've always got your work with you.

Any discussion of today's AI firms has to start from the position of these companies being controlled by people deeply rooted in, and invested in, those systems and the negative application of that technology towards "working for a living" to date.

How do we get from there to a utopia?