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I don't think it's fair to be dismissive of AI fears by equating it with fear of future because what matters isn't change but the RATE of change

The rate of change is the difference between slowing for a red light and crashing into a brick wall. In both cases there is a force acting on the front of your skull but only in the latter is it accelerated into the back of your skull.

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> what matters isn't change but the RATE of change

And also direction of change. Not all change is for the better.

There is not one possible future, there are many; but only one will happen. We have some agency in determining its shape.

Some of the possible futures are dystopian, and we should be afraid of them, and that fear should prompt us to turn away from them.

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