I'd say there are genuine concerns about the current development of AI. I'm working as a software dev and while currently, I don't fear for my job, in a few years, or on the unfortunate event that our higher ups get free reign, I can see possible bad outcomes.
Personally, I only use AI occasionally to get inputs. Inspiration. Which it is good at, but whenever I tried to get anything actually valuable from it, I would end up spending more time typing follow up prompts than if I had just read through the Wikipedia page.