Comment by estearum
5 hours ago
Sure, here's a direct answer:
Even after the mechanical loom was created, figuring out the next most important problem to work on was a job that humans did.
Unless you believe there's some hard limit on AI intelligence that will constrain it below the intelligence of a particular earthbound hairless ape, then eventually AI will be perfectly sufficient and probably better at figuring out the next most important problem to work on.
Ta-da, humans are completely removed from the value chain. Neither the loom nor the tractor could not do such a thing.
That assumes that a value-judgement can be optimally made with intelligence alone.
In every sense that economically matters (i.e. in every sense that will actually attract the resources required to realize such a determination), it can be.
The problem is that the economic matters are not the only relevant issues, and I would argue they're not the most important ones either
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