> it deserves scrutiny and demands elaboration.

These challenges never go anywhere because it’s essentially a religious conviction. We’re likely in sort of uncharted territory on a macro scale and I reckon people a) either acknowledge that or refuse, and b), either trust or distrust the tech world’s stewardship of this technology. There’s a hundred bazillion data points, and I’m pretty pessimistic about the tech scene at large right now, but I think reasonable people can disagree on this without being factually or logically wrong. But true zealots in the midst of such uncertainty are driven by faith, which can certainly be deftly swayed over time, but definitely can’t be conquered in a debate.

Eh, I think many of the harms of AI are currently also nebulous. It's not as though the harms are all concrete and massive and the benefits are vague and "in the future"

I agree but I see a lot of very concrete harms too. It's been catastrophic for schools, the sloppification of the web has been largely a disaster so far, it's been a disaster for cybersecurity, it's wreaked havoc on the consumer electronics market, it's driven a lot of financial and existential insecurity for students and early career people across various roles, and while I'm not as militant about data centers as some I think their proliferation has been a net negative environmentally (including increased reliance on coal).