I'd guess us throwing around the word "AI" constantly and endlessly debating p(doom) based on current tech will be considered pretty amusing in the future.

Like reading essays from the late 19th century that can't stop pontificating about living in a boundless technological singularity thanks to railroads and the telegraph. Current hackocalypse discourse already has shades of "the bomber always gets through" from the 20s.

"Sure, people in every era since the Renaissance have foolishly believed they were the ones living on the cusp of uniquely transformative and potentially cataclysmic technological change but ... This Time It's Different"

pretty sure "before wwiii" will take precedence