As a staunch AI critic, my opinion is that if you're on the fence about it, and just want to bring some realism into the discussion, you can't if you're talking

As a staunch AI critic, my opinion is that if you're on the fence about it, and just want to bring some realism into the discussion, you can't if you're talking about the future. Because eventually AI might indeed gain quite a lot of the hyped features that some are talking about. You can look in the academic papers on Google Scholar to find some cautionary tales, but in general with academia, most researchers want to get on the hype train to inflate their CVs. The only way to truly be critical of AI is to be against it for other reasons, such as its damaging effects on society and its ability to aggregate wealth to the top without much serious life improvement for the average person. I think AI is really one of those things that you're either for or against and there's no middle ground.