Not sure how these are even related. Y2K was a specific technical problem with an obvious solution. The only "issue" was that the whole thing got massively ove

Not sure how these are even related. Y2K was a specific technical problem with an obvious solution. The only "issue" was that the whole thing got massively overblown by the media and a tiny minority of preppers. (Who also overreacted, for the media attention they got from it. "Florida Man spends $2,000 on canned vegetables, details at 11.") I don't think many people "fear" AI, they fear what unethical and non-caring people will do with it in the persuit of money. Personally, my biggest fear is that eventually it will become hard to impossible to know whether the thing I'm reading on the internet was written by a human or a computer. Or I will call someone and have no idea whether the "person" I'm speaking to is a bot or not. I am already frustrated by phone trees that can only be navigated with speech, because they literally can NEVER help me with what I want. My default mode of operation is shouting into the phone, "I want to speak to a human" over and over again until someone's phone rings. Sometimes it even works. Basically, I imagine whole classes of industries (particularly those that sell financial products, like insurance) are already looking to replace literally all of their call center staff with AI. AI will be good for many things. But lots of companies and entrepreneurs will try to use it as a substitute for what should be human-to-human communication, and that will make everyone's life anywhere from a little to a lot worse.