The people that can be replaced by first wave #AI are not the type of employees and service workers that any of us enjoy working or interacting with. 

They are the type of people that, while in the workforce, are a drag on society. They have negative value, they hate their jobs and they make life worse because of their lack of seriousness and ability to commit to their career or their craft or whatever their vocation or even truly understand their responsibility to produce and feed for themselves.

Perhaps the productivity gains from the first couple waves of AI will, along with Bitcoin, work to re-instantiate the home and the family as a legitimate institute, thus providing different roles for these currently "useless feeders".

I also think that part of the depopulation effort is being perfectly time to the rollout of AI because you know in the deepest analysis it's a balance sheet maneuver. If you're managing a large economy and you know that automation is getting better and better and it's going to replace 20-30 percent of the work force in less than a decade. You don't want a face plant into that and suddenly have this massive liability of just cost center that is a drag on your country especially when you consider that your country is in competition with all the other countries. So from that point of view you could see how within the confines of statecraft that something as malicious as depopulation could be dreamed up and justified.