The factory owners were fighting the Luddites to keep child labour and poverty wages. It's pretty clear to me who was on the "right side of history" there. Lud

The factory owners were fighting the Luddites to keep child labour and poverty wages. It's pretty clear to me who was on the "right side of history" there. Luddites weren't fighting against technology as such, they were fighting against the negative effects it had: factory owners treating workers in ways that would net you many years in prison today. And it's the same with AI; people generally don't hate the concept as such, they oppose or are concerned with the effects it has or might have. You can disagree with that, that's fine and by all means let's have that discussion! But you can't just brush people aside as "Luddites", as if that's somehow an argument, because it's not.