> AI is wildly unpopular outside of our little tech bubble.

That goes against my personal experience. It's only people in this small tech bubble that hate it.

In the broader space people love it. I know plenty of people 50+ who use it as their search engine now, people who use it for relationship advice, my wife works with someone who claims to be dating an AI boyfriend (don't ask me how that works). And that's to say nothing of everyone who uses it to write their mundane emails and spreadsheets.

It only seems to be people heavily involved in tech as part of their day job who have any serious concerns about it.