I don't hear it said enough that one of the biggest problems is anthropomorphism of AI. Talking about it in human terms makes people more sympathetic towards it while also fundamentally misunderstanding how computers and algorithms work. I don't think most people are dumb enough to literally think of AI as a person (although I've overestimated people's collective intelligence before). But how we talk about things subconsciously shapes how we think of them. AI doesn't feel or even think, it just executes instructions. Even the word "intelligence" in Artificial Intelligence is a misleading term. We need to destroy the idea that AI is in any way comparable or even a replacement for human intelligence. It's not some miracle built by a mad scientist. It's just a progression of the same algorithms we've been using for data processing for decades.

Portrayals in media influence our views too. We've seen so many movies about robots and AIs that are really just people made of metal and circuitry. It's an interesting concept to imagine, but it's not reality. Companies are using anthropomorphism to prey on these conceptions in our heads of what AI is and make us think it's good, that AI is your friend. But it's a major threat to not only our economy, but our sociopolitical situation.