The discourse surrounding "AI" has been so bunglingly exhausted that it just loops around to being technophobic fear-mongering and loses whatever rationale it might've had in the first place.
The most logical critiques levied against language models (since that's the thing people are talking about most here) are usually centered around capitalistic issues rather than exclusively the tech itself. I've yet to see a compelling argument against it that ties solely to it being such.
But outside the typical capitalistic woes, a lot of people still somehow think that these models are somehow sapient or that they actually want to take their job, or better yet, destroy mankind. It's even more depressing when you see bright minds repeating these overexaggerated talking points as well, like Professor Dave Explains, who made two videos covering the topic in probably the most weirdly inauthentic way imaginable.
Like, I rarely have any big criticisms towards Dave, but his videos related to AI are just littered with misconceptions about the tech, taking observations on statistics at face value, poor media analysis, lack of literacy on the field, and, of course, the human supremacist lens of making AI the antagonists, I can't stress enough how much emphasis he puts the existential threat of AI, even to the point of equating its danger to that of climate change, which is rather insulting to the reality facing us right now. Not to mention, the notion that he sees AI as a threat because it may not be within humanity's best interest, or can't be controlled, is just rife with hypocritical anthropocentric dogma. All this while performing contradictory moves, he himself has critiqued others for doing when covered in his videos.
You might as well just cry "communist!" when you see a machine that replicates or at least tries to replicate human behavior, because that's the same type of line of thinking a lot of these people are working under: "We don't understand a thing, so therefore, we must make assumptions about said thing and project our wrongdoings upon it, because we lack so much self awareness that we are conditioned to sympathise with the oppressor and thereby project the oppressors tactics onto the other".
It's a familiar evil that people have grown to tolerate because we're just that fubar we can't see the forest for the trees, or even look in the mirror for that matter. Except, instead of pinning our problems against minorities or communists, we're pinning it on technology that's in its infancy.
This is not a new phenomenon, of course, but it is frustrating nonetheless.