I sympathise with a lot of the details of mathematicians' complaints, but at the same time I still see very few people stepping beyond "what will this do for the discipline" to think "what will this do for social welfare". It's like hearing scribes complaining about the printing press. Yes, I'm sorry that you won't get paid to do beautiful illuminated manuscripts, but I think the benefit to society outweighs that, and if it didn't, then why were you being paid to do the illumination in the first place?

It's not that there aren't possible arguments here (AI is destroying the basis for further progress). But this perspective is hardly even being addressed by most of the reactions.