I'm saying that most predictions about the dystopian AI future are typical of any generation encountering a disruptive technology. They're exaggerated and built from assumptions.
They also always seem to conclude that the answer to these problems is to keep these machines centralized in the hands of big companies and governments, which is a very strange conclusion when they tend to get paychecks from those groups.
At the extreme end you even get these people talking about AI like it's going to be some monstrous world eating god.
All innovation has negative consequence.
Television lead to couch potato. 24 7 news. Television stars.
Radio killed the local performer.
Social media addiction and the erasure of culture and increase of depression.
Cars, if you go back far enough, got plenty of criticisms as well.
The AI powered future, should it come to exist will have downsides. You'll have a very different landscape to deal with as a creative where your artistic output isn't valued for individual works of art. You'll have very different expectations of how art and media is personalized. It will be hard to trust video or pictures or audio again, because they are so easily faked.
Our way of life, as it stands today, will not survive. That's not bad, just different.
The AI critical people tend to have some valid criticisms, but at the end of the day their criticisms are rooted in a desire to maintain a status quo until we are "sure it's safe" and that just doesn't fly.
We don't know how this will all pan out until we try it, so as we have always done, we will try it and deal with the consequences as they appear.