The only way that can be is if you make the AI/robots undocumented and extremely hard to operate, so that even if someone steals your blueprints and builds an exact clone of your robot manufacturing plant, or what have you, they have no idea how to get them to do anything.
People are crazy good at handling this sort of complexity.
Really? What system is that?
No, because human wants aren't fixed. When you give a human everything they want now, tomorrow they come back with a whole new set of wants. And so on ad infinitum...
Of course, as an individual it's your choice whether, and for how long, you stay on this merry-go-round. But there will always be a significant number of humans who will.
>> Wouldn't this imply humans should already be working very little compared to pre industrial revolution?
> No, because human wants aren't fixed. When you give a human everything they want now, tomorrow they come back with a whole new set of wants
It sounds like you are disagreeing with the OP, not me?
Or do you think AI productivity will make us work less in a way Industrial productivity didn't?
I am disagreeing with the OP's claims that productivity gains make humans work less.
If your answer to the "wouldn't this imply" question is also "no", as mine is, then no, I am not disagreeing with you.
Wouldn't this imply humans should already be working very little compared to pre industrial revolution? Instead it seems we work more [1]. And with less fulfilling work. I agree however that we have may have more stuff (or wealth).
So going by this projection, in the future we'll have even more stuff, and work even more in even less fulfilling work. That is, assuming the people who control the AI/robots are willing to share the wealth generated.
[1]: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...