Not the pp, but:

1. For many countries (e.g. Australia), quite successfully. We said no, and then we didn't.

2. We can replace physical activity (e.g. machinery instead of human motion), and that doesn't move human beings from the place of control and power. Likewise, we can replace certain kinds of thinking work (e.g. programming or medicine) and that in itself isn't a major problem (except for the out-of-work programmers or doctors).

But replacing all cognitive activity (which is what a hypothetical future AI would do), what are we --- as humans --- left with?