> The question should not be whether the technology replaces people by machines, it should be whether it provides a net benefit overall

I like this framing.

But I wish more people would acknowledge that genAI offloads thinking in ways that the printing press, the loom, the calculator, and the computer never did.

I find a net benefit to be extremely unlikely, but the devil's in the details. We'd have to define "benefit" and that's already a big kettle of worms.