There's One Clear Reason Americans Are Gloomy About A.I

That's one reason, sure, but it's very far from being the only one.

Another reason that I hear with increasing frequency is that the most visible effects of genAI is that it's making things worse. It makes things more difficult, annoying, and intrusive and when it's brought into existing goods and services, the quality of those goods and services is much lower. It's increasingly being used to do things that most people find objectionable. And the constant hard-sell that everyone is getting about genAI is becoming intolerably irritating to a lot of people.