Claude gives some references to prior work. Maybe the most interesting is Anton Korinek:
Anton Korinek has been the most prolific economist on this. “AI’s Economic Peril to Democracy” (with Stephanie Bell, Journal of Democracy, 2023) is closest to your framing — explicitly argues that the labor-democracy linkage is what makes modern democracies stable and that AI severs it. “Preparing for the (Non-Existent?) Future of Work” (with Juelfs, in the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance) and “Economic Policy Challenges for the Age of AI” (2024 NBER WP) cover the policy space. He’s on Anthropic’s Economic Advisory Council now.
Claude gives some references to prior work. Maybe the most interesting is Anton Korinek: