Yet using an AI is bad enough to get you called a fascist, an eugenicist and other fun things. The lack of perspective is staggering but certain section of Lemmy users have just decided that AI is evil and any nuance is wrongthink. Even just accepting the reality that AI isn’t going to go away is seen as evil comparable to murder.

I'd buy into the potential for eventual advanced AI being potentially a very serious, existential threat to humanity.

But I'm not especially worried about AI in the near term. I'm pretty sure that a substantial chunk of people upset about present-day AI systems are worried about economic shifts from AI putting their job at risk one way or another, which is something that I don't agree much with

technological advancement has always caused changes in what people do. People in today's society in, say, the US, do almost entirely different things than they did two hundred years ago, for example. That change is nearly always considered to be a positive in retrospect. There are very, very few people in 2026 who are going to seriously say "everyone should drop what they are doing and society should go back to farming small farms with horses and oxen the way we did around 1800".

However, if you look at, say, the Luddites, we've had a history of people being worried about that change as it occurred, so I don't much think that people will stop. It's just human nature to fret about that sort of thing, I think. I'd be inclined to just let people have their say and move on. It's not that I agree with the people who are yelling about it, but that I don't realistically think that there's going to be a world where you have technological development and don't have people worried about how changes from that technological development might affect their place.

I also think that people who are worried about that are also a lot more likely to be vocal than people who aren't worried about it. I mean, only stands to reason

if there's something that you are really, really worried about, you're probably going to talk about it. If there's something that you don't see as a particular concern, then you're probably less likely to talk about it.