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You realize that even if these individuals aren't personally working at AI companies that most if not all of them have dumped all kinds of money into investing in these companies, right? That's part of why the stocks for those companies are so obscenely high because people keep investing more money into them because of current the insane returns on investment.
I have no doubt Wozniak, for example, has dumped money into AI despite not being involved with it on a personal level.
So yes, they are literally invested in promoting the idea that AGI is just around the corner to hype their own investment cash cows.
What do these people have to profit from getting what they're asking for? They're advocating for pulling the plug on that cow.