It says a lot about what injustices we have learned to accept that AI alarmists focus almost exclusively on the scifi-level hypothetical dangers of AI, rather than the very real problems it already causes today.

Those problems largely fall into three categories that I can think of off the top of my head at 1am:

1. AI is a convenient way to justify potentially uncomfortable decisions you would have made otherwise (idlewords said it best: "AI is money laundering for bias")

2. AI is being used in situations where it can be a threat to life and limb, like the current crop of self-driving(ish) cars

3. Essentially all of the gains from automating work going to people who already have capital