"[The obsession with AI] fundamentally has to do with power, and certainly with the power to make life... The people involved in this are men and that they have very idealistic fantasies about creating thinking robots that will ... reach a human level within the next 40 years, quickly become superior to us, and finally realize that they can get along much better without us, and they will take over and we will disappear... This is an expression of a uterus envy." - Joseph Weizenbaum, 1996
@zephoria Yes! See also Mary Baine Campbell's feminist reading of the historical figure of the homunculus https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/publications/rofl/issues/volume-1-issue-2/artificial-men-alchemy-transubstantiation-and
Artificial Men: Alchemy, Transubstantiation, and the Homunculus | Stanford Humanities Center

@zephoria as resources dwindle the rich will want to control them e.g water. And will want to replace humans with robots.