>Yes, I am an optimist. Yes, we should’ve been collectively thinking more critically long ago, but if a deep-rooted fear of our future robot overlords is the impetus we need to think critically, I’m all in.

What makes you think people will start thinking critically all of the sudden? The coming of the Apocalypse by our new robot overlords, by itself, is no reason at all.

You could have made the same point when everybody was panicking about the coming of the Computers and The Internet overlords decades. And see where we are now.