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The vast majority of anti-ai views are, no exaggerating, reactionary and conservative in philosophical, social, and economic ways. Not that I lose the irony that a while ago I saw a thread about AI art where there was a post with thousands of likes quoting Roger Scruton.

But as westerners are incapable of imagining a world without wage slavery or even the basic affordances of a welfare system, they'll continue to see improvements in quality of life and automation as an enemy, and making up "leftist" sounding nonsense to justify reactionary views.

For example, you can try to construct a woke argument about how the death of uber (a horrible system that involves a risk of injury for both a passenger and a driver working for little pay) as the death of community or something because self-driving cars don't force you to sit with someone anymore.

You don't need any of that. Under capitalism automation primarily serves to concentrate wealth in the hands of the capitalist class, at the direct expense of the labourers whose work allowed these companies to automate in the first place.