Hyperbole much? The same arguments could be made about any technology. Modern medicine would have been considered whichcraft centuries ago. Rock and Roll music was the “devil’s music.” People were murdered when they dare share scientific discoveries that were deemed blasphemous or heretical.

And, to be fair, the “system” has always had the power to punish and silence. The NKVD didn’t need AI to send people to the Lubyanka basement or to the gulags. This anti-AI pontification is ridiculous. ANY technology has the power to enslave just as it also has the simultaneous power to enlighten and uplift. People were brutally murdered long before there were tools to do so and yet, those very tools have protected people just as much as they have harmed. So it goes..