Tbf the people in ~2001 who were saying “[AI] is going to eliminate all our jobs and we will serve our innocent robot overlords” are literally the same people at the fore-front of saying it today, and spent the last 20 years building the social & economic capital to get the business world to listen
The idea that AGI is the final answer to all of the social, administrative, and political challenges of humanity is a spiritual and ideological belief and always has been, and now it has a lot of powerful adherents who were woo’d into believing it by people often described as wannabe cult leaders
There is something to be said about the view of science as a Konami code for the world.
The view of technology of techlords wanting to dominate and disenfranchise and FALGSC dorks trying to avoid the question of labour in their techno-Cockaignes are less divorced in meaningful ways then they think.