Are there really people that can't tell the difference between ELIZA and something that can solve open Millennium Prize Problems in math?
Humans solved the open math problems.
It turns out, oddly enough, that it's possible for it to be both. AI can simultaneously be used to destroy the commons with slop and also make contributions to new math (though isn't the jury still out on whether part of the idea was stolen from human mathematicians?)
Yes, AI threatens the folks who think that knowing how to write JavaScript or C makes them smart and being smart is their entire identity.