I get what you’re saying but I also think it’s understandable that a lot of people are still very wary of AI. For one I think there’s a lot of reasonable doubt that it will, at least as it exists now, actually help useful automation and instead just being hyped up by tech oligarchs and mostly just pumps out slop. Right now the jobs it seems to be close replacing are not the ones I think society should be focusing on replacing. Robots writing TV shows while Bangladeshi children make sneakers this the vision of the future current AI models present to me.

Edit: also current AI models seem to have a high social cost while not actually doing a good job automating. It burns a lot of energy while generally producing lackluster results.