I think we could get a stronger negative reaction against AI than the reformation caused against the pope. Nukes didn't take anyone's job so they were easy to ignore, whereas AI is becoming ubiquitous and is quickly putting more and more people out of the careers they spent their lives training for.

Stopping AI is at least worth trying for if the alternative is extinction. In the immortal words of Mickey Mouse, "Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?"