AI Hype Skepticism Is the Left's Self-Defeating Own Goal

Much AI skepticism comes from the left, motivated by distaste for big tech, leading to the belief that AI must be all hype—but this is a massive self-defeating own goal, because the rich capitalists are openly announcing they will automate away all workers (exactly the Marxian outcome the left feared), and by denying it's achievable the left is failing to prepare for the very threat it always warned about.