> Should we abolish tractors and mechanical looms on the basis that they put farmers and weavers out of work, and only concentrate "money and power" to the "capitalist class"?

If you don't have good jobs (or some equivalent) ready for all the farm workers, sure. Progress should serve everyone, rather than have the costs concentrated on those less able to bear them.

And you need an actual plan, not just a fallacious hand-wave of, "it'll all work this time, because it worked out in the past." You can't assume history will repeat itself (and you may not even want that: a genocide feels far different to those killed than the survivors, and an economic disruption feels far different to those harmed by it than some kid reading about it 100 years later).

But if you can't come up with that, I wouldn't mind some law that forbids businesses from owning and operating AI, reserving that exclusively for workers and worker-organizations.

At some point, automation will mean there won't be any jobs left (at least for most people, and don't hand-wave that away), and AI means we're far closer to that point than we ever have been. Something different will need to happen (though it'll probably a loosening of morals around the value of human life, with billionaire killing off the excess population (us) their kingdoms with vibecoded AI attack drones).