I can see the harms automation does in a capitalist society by putting people out of jobs, but what about in an anarchist society? By automation I am only talking about robotic automation for the production and delivery of goods or for services, not artificial intelligence or LLMs.
There are ways to automate without all that overhead. We can start over, with wooden cog logic and solar light free space transmission lines, living media power converters and recycled metal tools, and build sustainable machines we couldn’t imagine today.
Sure things will break, so the srtisan would have to stay close to the creation. There is no easy scaleup without oppression now - but I am sure more self-sustainable technologies are possible if we start caring.
Besides, there is matter of research. I think making small amounts of insustainable materials to discover more laws of nature and empower us to achive more harmony are ok, as long as we do it ourselves and not outsource to slave work half world away.