Well at least one difference there is all those cypherpunks, rightly or wrongly, felt like having access to encryption tech was synonymous with individual liberty, and in that there fights were an opposition to the state controlling them.

But in this case I don't see how we can divorce this AI stuff from the huge companies that alone have the infrastructure and capital to train and sustain them (at the moment). As such, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with individualism/libertarianism as such.

So, less punk, but way more technological determinism.