Like with the Israel lobby and the O&G Industry and the Tobacco industry before it, the "lessons learned" will be more how to mask your activities, displace blame onto individual consumers, and cement yourself within the body politic so that you can keep pissing everyone else off with impugnity.

The "backlash" such that it exists will be weaponized by the two-party system into a wedge issue. And we'll go into 2026 and then 2028 with media saying how you're either For Sensible (toothless) Regulation of AI Industry or you're A Luddite Pawn Of The Russian / Chinese / Drug Traffickers.

Get ready to be tied into knots, explaining why you're only going to support the candidate behind a trillion-dollar AI bailout and a state-subsidized ChatGPT Subscription Mandate, because the alternative is way worse.