Automation is not a major theme in Everything Everywhere All At Once, but it does show up in an algorithm used to calculate the best action to "verse-jump," which requires the jumper to perform a statistically improbable action. The Alphaverse has developed a method to determine this action and which universe it will result in the jumper accessing, to minimize the guesswork with jumping between universes. Other than this one instance, there is not much of a focus on automation in this movie, as the technology is somewhat of an aside in the movie.
Globalization, however, does play a role in the movie. The Alphaverse, using its verse-jumping technology, is able to access and communicate with other universes across the multiverse. This can be seen as a step above globalization, as the entire multiverse can be interconnected, not just the whole world. Just as the Internet has brought the entire world closer together through its ability to allow the exchange of ideas near-instantaneously anywhere in the world, the verse-jumping technology allows its user to receive skills and memories from their counterparts in other universes, as well as, in some cases, communicate with other people in that universe through their counterpart's body.
The main villain of the story, Jobu Tupaki, does not just pose a threat to any one individual universe; she threatens the entire multiverse. Because of this threat, people from the Alphaverse have been traveling across the multiverse to find an Evelyn that is capable of stopping this existential threat. Without the verse-jumping technology enabling this, there would be no way for the Alphaverse to recruit Evelyn Wang to join their cause in stopping Jobu.Â