alt Hacker NewsThe “ism” requires something beyond simply recognizing the distinction, which OP didn’t do. Its not “elitism” to recognize that, for most people, the world around them might as well be magic. “Ism” would be if they went further and said we should treat people better if they’re higher IQ. In fact, the point was the opposite. AI could erase the class distinctions that exist for the cognitive elite.
I'd go even further: even the ‘cognitive elite’ (the university educated? researchers?) understand only a thin spike of frontier human knowledge, even if they might understand it very deeply. Outside their specialty and maybe a slightly raised background level of general education, the world is still magic. No one human understands even a significant chunk of human frontier knowledge. That's why we build artificial societies comprising many humans to make complex decisions.
Illustrations: https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/