Reasoning behind resistance towards technological advancements
Foreword:
I've seen people say "well people who resisted this and that eventually lost", from printing press to electricity, I'm going to be explaining the why, because not a single person sharing these examples from the past have bothered to explain the reasonings behind the resistance. Just basically "haha people resisted this and lost this is what 'antis' are."
Throughout these examples you'll find that it's not necessarily just for cultural or religious reasons, but also genuine concerns of things like safety, loss of income and lack of standards.
The printing press:
This is an interesting one. I've done a little bit of reading about the printing press and the controversies behind it and the reasoning for why people were so resistant to it wasn't just because people who wrote things manually would be out of jobs.
Turns out that thanks to the speed written works could now be published, there were bound to be mistakes here and there. So if you bought a first edition of something made by a printing company, the chances were that it would have had errors.
The only way for that error to be rectified would be to buy the newer edition. Not only that, because copyright was not a thing, printing companies were also selling pirated works of other people and companies. There was nothing there to prevent them from just yoinking someone else's work and printing that out.
So, while it was revolutionary technology at the time, it was also being abused maliciously to make quick profits.
Electricity:
Why would anyone be resistant to something as marvelous as electricity? It powers everything from households to factories and makes the life of an average citizen easier.
Well, when electricity was invented, no safety standards whatsoever. Wire being exposed made electricity very dangerous.
There were a lot of deaths in New York and people were seriously concerned for their own safety. Electricity was much more dangerous back in the day, so it was completely understandable why some people were resistant to electricity.
Luddite movement:
a nickname for people who are against AI. The thing is, luddites being barbaric, machine destroying purists was pure propaganda, written by the rich after luddites were hanged.
Luddites tried to in fact negotiate with big corporations and were accepting of the machinery as long as it was not used to replace people completely. Many luddites knew how to operate the machinery, even.
However, corporations had other plans. Cram as many machines in the factories as they could and replace people with them.
Luddites, now angry that they were being replaced, started sabotaging the machinery as a way to protest, defending rights of workers.
You could say Luddites were the first people to unionize and started a movement towards workers rights.
So yeah. People living in these times had very valid concerns over these new things and so do people who are against AI.
In fact I'd say it's a compliment when people against AI are called luddites or are told that they are the people who were against printing press or electricity.
Because that means that people against AI are basically the same as those who advocated for some standards and rules.