Actually, no. There was a great article about why the ruling class cared about people (to a certain degree): 1. Fear, because the masses can kill them, 2. The masses are needed as workforce.

Both fear and workforce will be solved for them by AI and robotics soon. Military robots and AI can protect the ruling class, while working robots and AI will manufacture, repair, cure everything they need.

According to the article, this will not lead to the killing of the masses, only to a steady population decline which will lead to a “society” of a few robot lords people that is protected and served by robots. Eventually, they will also clash and the technologically superior will win. If the winning robot lord and his/her court is not composed of enough people, that’s going to lead to inbreeding, genetical decline and eventually, the extinction of the human race.

There was a very interesting part which explained that the rich will most likely also die and robot lords will emerge from those who know how to instruct robots, i.e. engineers, programmers, etc.

The article gave a detailed analysis of the above outcome through economics. But my main issue is that I don’t find it anywhere, anymore.