Here, contrary to OP, are arguments from left intellectuals engaging with AI from a serious understanding of the technology.

@Ben Recht passim - and his forthcoming book is excellent.

Kathy Thelen and @JS Tan - journals.sagepub.com/do… .

The folks at Reboot - I’m teaching @jessica dai on alignment to my students on Thursday. @Leif Weatherby on Language Machines - upress.umn.edu/97815179… - my crude summary programmablemutter.com/… .

Ted Underwood on LLMs mapping latent cultural spaces - tedunderwood.com/2021/1…

Our Science piece is at least 50% authored by card-carrying lefties science.org/stoken/auth… see also Cosma at greater length bactra.org/weblog/feral… ).

That is just from 2 minutes of noodling through people whose work I know well (apologies to those it leaves out). Taking some crude summarization of Bluesky sentiment as an index for left thinking is understandable as a first approximation but misses out on a whole lot of conversation.