Fuck AI

That’s why you need strong safety nets to help people transition to new industries or at least to give them a dignified retirement out of the workforce. That’s neither here nor there, if it’s not AI it’ll be the next thing.

I agree with most of what you wrote in this paragraph, but we have no such strong safety nets. I don't think the fact that it has happened previously is justification for creating those circumstances again now (or in the future) without concern for how it impacts people. We're supposed to be getting better as time goes by. (not that we are by many other metrics I can see on a daily basis, but as you say that's another conversation)

Genies don’t get put back in bottles, you just learn to regulate and manage the world they leave behind when they come out. And, if you catch it soon enough, maybe you get to it in time to ask for one wish that isn’t just some rich guy’s wet dream.

I also agree with this.

But, I find there is plenty of justification to push back and try to slow the proliferation of AI in certain areas while our laws and morality try to catch up.