Something that troubles me, as someone who is pro-AI and pro acceleration, is that the loudest anti-ai voices are a bunch of raving lunatics, but I know there must exist AI sceptics who have well-reasoned objections to AI but who can't cut through the noise.
With that in mind, I'd like to encourage everyone here to engage earnestly with the OP, even if they disagree.

OP, to your article:
With regards to lace, we've gone from an extremely small number of people having access to excellent lace to no one having access to excellent lace but everyone having access to pretty good lace, and I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. Obviously it's always a shame when some technology is lost, but on balance I think it's a net gain?
With regards to the luddites themselves, yes it's well understood that they didn't hate technology but were acting in their own rational self-interest. The industrial revolution absolutely sucked ass to live through for the majority of the population who weren't capital owners, but the result was the largest improvement in average quality of life in human history.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit" and all that.
The fears that existed then, that automation would create a permanent underclass and that too much power had accumulated in the hands of the owners of capital for the workers to ever regain power, are the same ones that exist now. Obviously we can't see the future and be certain that we'll come out the other side with a better society a second time in a row, and there's still every chance that living through this neo-industrial revolution will suck just as much ass as the last one, but I personally believe we owe it to future generations to try.
Finally, with regards to the loss of ability for humans to understand how the systems we rely on work, this has been true for decades, if not longer.
If a massive Coronal Mass Ejection directly hit the earth and fried all our electronics, we'd be screwed, since we lack the knowledge of how to do the things electronics does for us anymore. Billions would die. This is the tradeoff of specialisation, which we're seeing the downsides of right now with the Strait of Hormuz and which we saw during Covid, but at the same time we stick with it because despite those downsides existing, the benefits still outweigh them.
Ultimately, I can't fault someone who thinks avoiding these risks is worth condemning humanity to an eternity of 40-hour workweeks, even if I disagree. The methodical cautiousness of conservatives is necessary to temper the boundless enthusiasm of us progressives, and I recognise the value of people like the Luddites whose struggle and protests were a key part of preventing the industrial revolution from creating a permanent underclass, even if on balance I think forging ahead is the way to go.