This is an ugly situation because usually the geeks defend technology from the luddites, but in these cases the geeks are the luddites. I find the more someone sees themselves as an intellectual the more they are afraid of AI. I guess a cynical explanation is that AI will knock them off that intellectual pedestal. Personally, I welcome something smarter than us. We've just been tip-toeing through endless warfare, poor economics, poor social policy, and occasionally skirting with nuclear destruction.

Give the AI's a chance to contribute, especially if the solutions to problems we can't crack are because of human cognitive limits. This situation reminds me of how the Apollo landings couldn't be done without computers. There's just no way a person can do those calculations on paper. AI as a contributor of economic, technological, or social policy seems to be a similar step.