This is useful:

“The industry paroxysm around AI feels like it’s all new, and exciting, and a little threatening, but I think that when you really dig into it, you’ll see that it’s an acceleration and intensification of things that we have already had, just faster and louder. It feels like a revolution because it’s widely available, not because it’s all that novel. It may change the world, but lots of things change the world, and the impact of the changes is determined by society, not the technology.”

from “How long has this been going on?” by Heidi Waterhouse

https://heidiwaterhouse.com/how-long-has-this-been-going-on/