Here’s a rigorous logical deduction that’s totally meatless—I just want to pretend I know how to write math formulas

1. Premise 1: There exists a set of people $B$ who fear the unknown. (Sartre’s existential philosophy and Terror Management Theory by Becker, Solomon, Greenberg, and Pyszczynski.)

   $∃x∈B, FearOfUnknown(x)$

2. Premise 2: The future is unknown. (Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.)

   $Future⊆Unknown$

3. Lemma 1 (Derived from Premise 1 & 2):

   Since the future is a subset of the unknown, some people in $B$ will fear the future.

   $∃x∈B, FearOfFuture(x)$

4. Premise 3: There exists a subset $A$ of $B$, where people fear AI. (Practically any news you see today.)

   $A⊆B,∃y∈A, FearOfAI(y)$

5. Premise 4: AI is a part of the future. (Any interaction with reality will confirm this.)

   $AI⊆Future$

6. Lemma 2 (Derived from Lemma 1 & Premise 4):

   If a person fears the future, and AI is a part of the future, then their fear of AI can be understood as a manifestation of their fear of the future.

   $∃y∈A, FearOfAI(y)⟹ FearOfFuture(y)$

Conclusion:

Thus, the fear of AI is fundamentally rooted in a fear of the future.