You have to understand that this rhetoric has been used by the leftists
Away with the old idiom "To quench one's thirst by looking at plums' has become "to quench one's thirst by taking arsenic."
When technology was getting real good in the 90's and 2000s, the leftists and the labor parties were cheering the loudest supporting them.
Now in the 2020s, Ai is now the new craze
The Leftists at silicone valley changed their rhetoric, saying that whoever supported Ai and technological progress are all traitors AI has raped these people's brains so hard that any mention of it will freak them out.