Denial (Oh it made a mistake on this, or it's not as good as a person)
Anger (People are going to lose their jobs, this destroys the meaning of what we do, this will destroy society)
Bargaining (Maybe it's good at this simple thing, but I can pivot to some other niche the AI can't currently do)
Depression (It's faster, cheaper, better than me. It has taken over that which I relied on for meaning in my life...)
Acceptance (I need to find something else to do with my life)
AI Optimists often fall in 2 categories of people. They are capital owners who own the AI, and never had to go through the stages of grief... or they are people who learned how to use AI for their benefit, and have reached acceptance.
The move to AI is part of a general trend of pauperisation of the working classes in the developed world. The only difference is that this time it will also affect those with higher education who until now have thought of themselves as irreplaceable.
The way I see it, we could replace our government (murrika) with a d20 and do better than we're doing now. A d20 with a nominal likelihood of thinking it's dice rolls through ought to just be an improvement on that.
It is blatantly obvious that most people aboard the e/acc train can hardly hide their love of making money. Marc Andreessen owns, what, a $177 million compound? Unfortunately, after many years of nerdy idealism, Silicon Valley ended up with many corrupted to the same NYC Wall St. hedonism.