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.
The two topics are hard to relate together for me. Machines and automation of them in our current system implies someone owns both the automated machine AND the output of said system. (Let’s conveniently forget the essential contributions of the human wage-slaves making the whole thing operate, cuz fuck ‘em)
So once we have figured out how to get people to move past greed-based concepts of private ownership of every fucking thing that moves, the ‘automation question’ you pose will automatically be solved too.