Social Democrats and Robots

I recently listen to a lecture by Peter Frase about class relations in an era of automation and artificial intelligence and it made me wonder why social democrats don't talk more about these issues. Surely if one aims to represent factory workers' interests then automation should be an important issue? Still, I haven't heard any social democratic parties discuss the issue. You would think that social democrats in government would take steps to prevent or at least regulate automation so that we don't end up in a scenario of mass unemployment due to robots being cheaper and more efficient labourers. This is doubly true if you accept Frase's argument that there are more incentives to automate if the labour force is organised as organised labour is better at negotiating wages and benefits than individuals which makes it more expensive to hire in economies where the labour is organised. Furthermore imagine the political cost of standing idly by while automation destroys the livelihood of the social democratic parties' voter bases. Personally, I expect automation to be an important issue in politics relatively soon. As I'm sure you've already heard, there are already functioning self driving cars and when the adoption of the self driving car becomes widespread I expect those working in transportation to have strong opinions that politicians will be forced to consider. Economists will usually say that automation has always brought more jobs than it has destroyed and that automation are the reason many jobs we have today are a direct result of automation. This may be the case once again, that automation and artificial intelligence brings more new jobs than it destroys but don't think that those who have spent their working lives in a sector won't be angry if they get replaced by machines. European social democrats have been on the back foot lately and I suspect that automation will be a crucial question in the future, it could be their resurgence if they handle it well, or it might be their death if they can't handle it.