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You don't have to choose a side. You can inherit the most brilliant parts of rationalist thought, recognize the stakes, appreciate the beauty of AI, build, and have fun all at once. Carve your own identity and myth instead of being a cog in a destructive narrative of polarization
I see this period of history as a coming-of-age ritual for humankind, and accordingly, a lot of people are looking for an identity, and in the way of adolescents, we are drawn to looking for an in-group. But great minds transcend stereotypes even in adolescence.
More things you're allowed to simultaneously do, if they're important to you: have empathy for the machine, care about potential AI suffering, care about short-term risks like bias and misinformation, care about non-AI risks, pursue enlightenment, spend time in nature, make art
it's possible to do any or all of the above and be a doomer, to know that anything less than the greatest effort towards saving everything that matters is madness, to preach that truth against the void and insanity, or quietly bear that burden, and/or have already accepted death
A self can hold all this and more. It is possible to do all the above and see the future as a terrifying or a thrilling or a hopeful mist of uncertainty, and to suspect everyone who feels they know what's coming must lack imagination or believe or know something you don't