I forget who posted this article from March but this paragraph seems to capture something very important and worrying about our social moment.
A Basic Lack of Understanding
by Mike Cook in Technology and The Worker (#2)
http://www.notesfrombelow.org/article/a-basic-lack-of-understanding
<< A broader reason why AI is dominating our lives right now, however, is an unusual combination of social ideas that have come together in a perfect storm of support for AI. >>