The public attitude toward AI as a technology category — currently dominated by booed commencement speeches, "AI is anti-human" rhetoric, anti-data-center politics, and dystopian-layoff coverage.
Tensions
Three causes co-exist and are hard to separate cleanly: (1) genuine grievance about asymmetric returns to AI capital owners, (2) state-actor influence operations of the kind that have run against rival nations since the Cold War, and (3) a Copernican-style displacement of the human from the center of the value-creation story. Builders who only argue with the third cause lose the first two by default.