After Labour: Human Position in an AI-Robotic World System (full world-system standalone, v1.2 glosa-checked edition)

Abstract

Status. K0 conceptual and measurement architecture; v1.2 is the glosa-checked edition of the 6 September 2026 v1.1 (citation lineage repaired to deposited DOIs and versions; the undeposited working draft Capitalism After Labor Centrality disclosed as such; comparison wording set to same / different / cited; no content change). Part of the series When AI Expands Human Potential (index DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22308201). Companion papers deposited concurrently: The Human Conversion Imperative and How Humans Should Converse with AI. Central claim. The decisive transition in an AI-robotic world is not from human labour to machine labour but the weakening of labour as the universal bridge from personhood to a claim on social production. The paper proposes Human Systemic Position as the reporting object and closes the world-system with five blocks (machine-wealth accumulation, scarce-asset rent burden, aggregate-demand realization, social reproduction, three power channels); its primary non-collapse is that output growth does not imply growth in human position. No original dataset is analysed; parameters remain open; a falsification-oriented programme is stated. An AI assistant assisted retrieval, adversarial review, formalization, drafting and typesetting under the author's direction; no AI system is an author or contributor.