pretty much think they said the same thing about the steam engine though. Women, for example, wouldn't travel on trains because there was the belief that they went so fast that your womb would fall out or some other ridiculous meme-worthy nonsense.

We are looking at the steam engine, and the industrial revolution, with the benefit of rosey-tinted nostalgia glasses and a large glass of hindsight. It was just as terrifying and uncertain for the average worker then as AI is now. And like the industrial revolution, a lot of jobs that existed previously will disappear. No way to know how it will play out until it has played out