[codingdave]

I think you are inadvertently making the point that yes, we should be wary: What if, in the early days of cars and planes, people could have foreseen the worst of the problems that would come of those inventions, and slowed down to think through those problems, evaluate the risks, and find ways to mitigate them?

What if we now lived in a world that still had effective transportation, but without lost lives from crashes, without pollution, and without a climate crisis? Would that not be a good thing? Would that not have been worth slowing down even if it took as much as a couple decades?

So maybe it is worth listening to the risks of AI and taking the time now to prevent problems in the future.