Noam Chomsky being alive for the LLM era feels like a historical curiosity in the vein of Gorbachev living to see the invasion of Ukraine
Clarke's famous dictum that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" works both ways, belief in consciousness uploaded to machines, in the singularity, in human life in the cosmos is comparable with belief in magic amulets and Djinn granting wishes.