Are you saying that today's technology and social beliefs are not "limited"? What revisionist nonsense! Religion and morality are still strongly emphasized in most of the world - that isn't a good reason to suppose that the entire story about reactions to AI today are about religion. Even saying that beliefs are "limited" is a moral judgement. There were non-religious people, deists, unitarians, liberals, et al. in the 1930s much as there are today. People in the 1930s were not some kind of "Dark Ages" theocrats. That's a really jaundiced and over-simplified way to look at this.

The kinds of people who were most interested in advancing technology (and would therefore have been in the class of inventors, first adopters, and others most interested in new technology) were not necessarily religious. In the 1930s, Norbert Wiener was in his 30s, Claude Shannon was going to college at MIT, Alan Turing graduated at Cambridge. I don't think these people would have been too caught up in religious qualms. While the phrase "Artificial Intelligence" had not specifically been used, these were all people who would have understood the fundamentals of the concept. Moreover, it was during the 1920s and 1930s that the foundations of Science Fiction were laid, and at that time much of this fiction was very positive about new technology; Asimov and other authors got their starts during the 1930s, and had a lot to say about AI (though usually in the form of robots). Politically, modernism and futurism was also very positive toward technology. 

Please provide a different answer that has more of a basis in observations about the 1930s cultural relationship to technology. Also, since all AI can do without a robotic body is say things, consider 1930s attitudes toward speech. Why would they worry unduly about a magical telegraph that answers questions when Hitler had literally taken over Germany, made into a one-party authoritarian state, annexed the Sudetenland and invaded Poland (beginning WWII) all before the end of the 1930s? What's the worst an AI could do in the 1930s - write scripts for Leni Riefenstahl? They already had people doing that!
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