Ask HN: Mainstream media overplaying the threat of AI, or industry underplaying?

When I turn on any mainstream media I feel as though I only hear AI discussed in the apocalyptic terms. Then when I “switch” to industry media I only hear it discussed glowing, all the things breakthroughs will allow.

Both sides have countless reasons to take extreme positions (ratings/clicks, regulatory capture, votes, valuations, illusions of grandeurs, groupthink just to name a few)

So how does one find the middle ground and communicate it to those whose get their worldview from either side?

(Side note - in hindsight this has incredible similarities to the pandemic era)