telling people your technology will replace their jobs, devour their electricity, and possibly end civilization isn’t the winning sales pitch billionaires imagined.

"but what you guys aren't getting is the fact that it'll make me a lot more money."

AI is still not viable business. All that fear mongering is to create an alternative revenue sources.

"look, I created a monster that can destroy us all. Please give me money to contain and tame it. We can't destroy it because our enemies are creating their own monsters."