People who don't like your view of the future aren't "antiprogress" or "pro status quo," while you are imagining a little kid enabled to be creative and making lots of great stuff, others are imagining being inundated with targeted ads featuring their loved ones (and inevitably hurting people by showing them recently deceased loved ones, like when Facebook used to say, "you haven't spoken to this person in a while, why don't you send your dead friend a message?"), movies that go nowhere and mean nothing but are barely engaging enough that people watch them (AI is great at discovering solutions that satisfy the objective function while undermining the objective, eg, creating content that keeps you engaged but is devoid of substance), and deepfake misinformation masquerading as news.

You're imagining inventing a car and feeling the wind in your hair on the open road, others are imagining being stuck in traffic and cities becoming more and more dominated by parking lots. You're criticizing them for a lack of vision, but that's not correct; they're peering into the same future, and seeing something different.

That doesn't make them "antiprogress," they're critics with concerns that would be worth engaging with instead of dismissing. If you care about this project and you want to make the best version of it - ask them why they think that way instead of responding to the version of their concerns which is in your head, and then give some thought to how you could address it.

(I'm ambivalent leaning towards skeptical, so not much much of a dog in the race, trying to bridge a miscommunication.)