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Not necessarily! In "Saturn's Children" by Stross, humanity managed to wipe itself out, but post-humans (evolved from former, ahem, entertainment androids) are doing just fine across the Solar System. There's a plot point where one of them discovers that some corporation back on Earth inherited full property rights to her body due to an old pre-human-extinction EULA, and she'll be recycled for parts if she ever sets foot in their jurisdiction (I'm paraphrasing from memory).
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Do you expect competing AIs to give up on private ownership of the means of production and using them for profit?
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And vice versa.
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It'll turn into some starwars robot slave trading, Capitalism will be fine!
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