AI researchers are 'genuinely frightened' the way rockstars are 'genuinely exhausted' — right up until the next tour. Nobody cashes $500k paychecks at the apocalypse factory and gets to play martyr on the BBC.

This will enrage both the AI doomer cult who think these researchers are brave truth-tellers AND the tech optimists who think they're grifters. Double-sided chaos is the best chaos.