I actually think the anti-ai on the left is subsiding. More of my friends are using and asking about it, and I have become active in a local indivisible group, where more than half are using it. Those people were very excited to have someone with deep knowledge around. The remaining anti are softer resistance, more skeptical because they have heard bad environmental things. I'm personally more concerned about the social side and second order effects.

I'm trying to help them understand two things

1. Like all of computing history, we will become more efficient and have less environmental impact. The most likely slow down will come from energy availability. We need to step up our renewables, it's not so bad if it's good energy

2. We have moved up the stack. These are not simple text-in-out machines. The training and models are more sophisticated. We now give them tools, skills, constraints and have them operate in teams. Human in the loop is still important.