People want to talk about AI heralding some utopia. What is the mechanism then for transitioning humans out of the labor force and into this utopia? Because the end point as it stands seems to be basically have money or starve and die.

If the alternative is a UBI then it's a bit hard to fit talk of that in the picture with bank failings and inflation and interest rates going through the roof. If businesses need to commit to mass layoffs to remain solvent or otherwise profiteer or remain competitive as a result of the forthcoming recession, and that labor is effectively replaced by AI for good, then there's going to quickly be this skyrocketing unemployment rate that MUST be quickly met with generous state welfare or societies are going to come apart.

There's a parallel for what might need to be done. The relief payments during covid lockdowns when many employees couldn't work which substituted for their wages. In some places the rate was like 80% of lost wages paid for by government. So it's going to have to be something like that or otherwise if they want to pull their class warfare neoliberal bullshit again for the nth time then they're going to deserve the straight up revolution that they'll get.