The way I see it, we are taught from a young age to fear finance and money. We're told that we need to had it to someone else to store safely (banks). We're told that we need someone else to invest it for us for our future (401k). We're told that our government is responsible for protecting us (military and taxes).
As a result, we constantly hand off the responsibility to others and we don't make the effort to learn and understand it ourselves. We get angry and dismissive when we don't want to talk about something we are fearful of.
Of course, the people who take the different approach, of diving into understand it, are the ones who are benefiting the most from it. Those are the wealthy people on Wall Street. The bankers. The CEOs. The people who keep pushing the fear.
AI isn't about money or finance, it is about knowledge.