Don't you think that AI hate will limit the general use and then revenues so it will slow down by itself while the niche (AlphaFold for instance) will remains ?

Origins of AI hate:

  * "my boss wants me to use AI but he does not understand my job nor how AI works"
  * "AI will kill all of us"
  * "AI will destroy my job (or my colleague's job if I use AI better than him)".
  * I cannot pay my electricity bills because of AI labs.
  * ...

See also the mixed feelings about benefits of AI ("harder to justify" according to Uber COO).

I cannot remember a technology that arose so much hate, and for good reasons given how it is presented. I am tempted to think that AI hate or reasonable skepticism (vs unreasonable propaganda) can, maybe, reduce funding and will keep specialized AI for real problem solving (producing tons a LOC per day is not one of them, I think).