The soft proponents of #AI overwhelmed by the anger of AI opponents are used to living in a world where ethics was not a consideration when it came to the unquestioned adoption of new technology. Previously, anyone raising ethical questions could simply be dismissed for "trying to start a moral panic." Or you could just point to a single benefit--real or hypothetical--that automatically negated 99 other provable negative consequences.

Such tactics, it would seem, are no longer effective.