> Instead, I worry about the potency of the fear it is generating.
I question whether it's wise to label it as an irrational fear of AI per se, as opposed to a set of very reasonable fears which finally have some national-scale symbol to crystallize around.
Long before any LLM hype, people were already nervous about monopolistic--or in this case monopsonistic--systems which don't really care about them and would happily see them living in a ditch if it meant a good stock bump.