Developing, building and maintaining AKMs is creating jobs.
The development of a working and specified AI, which is essential for AKMs, will need much brain power, therefore more competence will be needed.
AKMs will most likely rely on large amounts of environmental data. The processing and tuning of this data corresponds with a significant amount of human input.
40.000 software engineers, which equals 1/7th of its total workforce.
AKMs will also destroy jobs, especially if the human infrastructure that enables the recruitment, training, deployment and rehabilitation of soldiers shrinks (as their jobs are taken over by AKMs and other, similar machines).
Such costs for employing AI researchers, data scientists, hardware experts, and training them, makes them cost prohibitive to fight large conflicts that rely on AKMs.
leads more likely to a 'post-employment' world than a full-employment world.
Development only brings jobs to educated people with a skillset easily applicable elsewhere since computing and engineering has no shortage of demand for skilled employees.
Construction is becoming increasingly automated.