These days even the AI companies are urging a slowdown if pace.
If somebody is afraid of speaking their mind, because the are afraid of being labelled an opponent to progress, that's some personal issue to work through.
It is popular and encouraged to be skeptical of AI, there no social opprobrium about it, unless you're in an extremist political cult, in which case you probably call it SI.
You can't really say this categorically, because that's not a universal experience.
Maybe you are one of the lucky ones not having immense pressure at work to adopt AI at all costs, but the reality of it is that if I open my mike in a "debate" where I work with all devs and managers, to speak in favor of taking things easy and to give time for people to learn these tools properly, I'd be frowned upon.
So while it's true that's encouraged to be skeptical about the tech, this really depends on the context and saying it doesn't clashes hard with my experience of the world.
If somebody is afraid of speaking their mind, because the are afraid of being labelled an opponent to progress, that's some personal issue to work through.
It is popular and encouraged to be skeptical of AI, there no social opprobrium about it, unless you're in an extremist political cult, in which case you probably call it SI.