It's slow because most people realize the truth about AI, which is:

(1) Reduces the value that people place on others, thereby creating a more narcisstic society

(2) Takes people's livelihoods away

(3) Is another method by which big tech concentrates the most wealth in their hands and the west becomes even more of a big tech oligarchy.

Programmers tend to stay in bubbles as they always have and happily promote it, not really noticing how dangerous and destructive it is.