What’s to take seriously? The vast majority of people don’t want anything to do with AI. They don’t want it, they don’t need it, and young people in particular are seeing just how thoroughly it is corrupting the capitalistic framework that violently coerces them to be profitable to someone else, least they suffer destitution, homelessness, starvation, and even death. AI is quickly creating an ensconced Parasite Class that has all the money, and an unemployable bulwark of people at the bottom who cannot find employment no matter how much they need to.
AI was developed to help capiatlists solve a problem that has always vexed them: how to obtain labour without having to pay for said labour.
AI is a way for wealth to access labour without allowing labour to access wealth.