We certainly are, but so is everyone else. To varying degrees.
My own personal opinion is that depending on your particular area of expertise, you will have various levels of resolution of knowledge. We might be in an echo chamber on AI here, but many of us aren’t even real specialists on the subject. So, we fall prey to various cognitive biases [1]
Regarding your friend - a few technological revolutions occurred without the general population really knowing anything about how they work. New tools show up, people use them.
My own personal opinion is that depending on your particular area of expertise, you will have various levels of resolution of knowledge. We might be in an echo chamber on AI here, but many of us aren’t even real specialists on the subject. So, we fall prey to various cognitive biases [1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
Regarding your friend - a few technological revolutions occurred without the general population really knowing anything about how they work. New tools show up, people use them.