For most people current AI is a little bit useful and a lot ominous, whereas the car, say, is a lot useful and only a little bit ominous. For coders this calculus may be different. You point out that it's also useful in law, finance, proofreading and entertainment, and these are indeed not niche fields, but I don't think there are all that many genuinely advantageous use cases of AI in these fields. In most cases one just gets increased convenience with evident downsides as well.
People may well have misunderstood how well AI will serve them personally in the future, when it's even smarter, but that's something reasonable people can disagree about.
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For most people current AI is a little bit useful and a lot ominous, whereas the car, say, is a lot useful and only a little bit ominous. For coders this calculus may be different. You point out that it's also useful in law, finance, proofreading and entertainment, and these are indeed not niche fields, but I don't think there are all that many genuinely advantageous use cases of AI in these fields. In most cases one just gets increased convenience with evident downsides as well.
People may well have misunderstood how well AI will serve them personally in the future, when it's even smarter, but that's something reasonable people can disagree about.
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