> Not as much and to the depth of despair that it has been foretold

So what? What you say would be true even of all the predictions were right, but just 1% less in magnitude. It's setting an unreasonably high bar.

A lot of people don't want to think about the harm that their enthusiasms could cause, and are eager to discredit anything that isn't a rose-tinted assessment because it's a threat to their fun or ambition.

AI will be great for those who already have money, and they'll be the ones writing the history of its effects.