Every capital improvement project is subject to environmental review and street works have a 95% chance to go over time and over budget. Then the population blames you personally and it’s game over.

What is an AI employee gonna do with beer, pizza, or airline tickets? Sure, little freaks like Musk and Altman would love a world where its them and n billion chatbots and not a single other loving soul, but our economy is tooled for making things people need. You might be able to retool it into a paperclip machine that only makes compute and energy but it would bother a lot of very deep pockets in the process.

The plot point from the deus ex series that sticks out to me was in Human Revolution where they started converting warehouses into concentration camps, but what do I know?