That's gotta be some kind of pick and choose fallacy (availability bias?). Those two happen to be high-status individuals from old high-status science disciplin

That's gotta be some kind of pick and choose fallacy (availability bias?). Those two happen to be high-status individuals from old high-status science disciplines so they tend to get whatever they say amplified. I wouldn't use this kind of reasoning to figure out what opinion AI professionals as a class have, but I do know there are more celebrities outside of AI than inside of AI.