What is anyone actually objecting to?
People boo AI. Then they board a plane that has been flying itself for most of every trip for years. They ride in a car that holds its own lane on the highway. They carry a phone that quietly decides which calls are worth showing them and which can wait.
None of that gets booed. None of it ever did.
So whatever the objection is, it isn't to the technology. The technology is already everywhere, it has been for a long time, and it has been welcome the entire time. Nobody organised against the autopilot.
What test are people applying instead?
Not a technical one. The honest version is less principled than anyone likes to admit.
If it affects your life in a bad way, it isn't good. If it affects your life in a good way, it's brilliant.
That's the whole test. Nobody evaluates a capability in the abstract, and nobody ever has. They evaluate what it did to them, and then they work backwards to a position about the category.
So why does this one get booed?
Because it's close enough to land on something.
A technology becomes controversial at the exact moment it gets near work somebody is paid for. Before that it's a convenience and nobody holds an opinion worth stating. Autopilot never came for anyone's living in seat 14C, which is precisely why nobody in seat 14C has ever thought about it.
Which means the booing isn't really a verdict on the capability. It's a reading of the trajectory. And in a lot of industries right now, people are reading that trajectory correctly, which is a different problem from being uninformed.
What does that make the real question?
Where it's aimed.
Pointed at the coordination, the chasing, the paperwork that eats an afternoon, it reads the way autopilot reads: invisible, and a relief. Pointed at the advice and the judgment, it reads as a threat, and it should, because that's the part of the job an agent is actually paid for.
So the argument about whether AI is good or bad was never going to resolve. It isn't the argument anyone is having. The one they're having is much more specific, and it has a real answer in any given case.
It's all how you use it. That isn't a dodge. It's the only thing anyone was ever evaluating.