Musk says AI is the single biggest existential threat (unless I'm mistaken and someone else similarly famous said that, maybe Thiel?). From this it appears that

Musk says AI is the single biggest existential threat (unless I'm mistaken and someone else similarly famous said that, maybe Thiel?). From this it appears that you, along with the rest of society (as you mentioned by how much is spent on oversight), think he is wrong. Nobody is arguing against funding AI. It's the fear-mongering we disagree with. It harms the field.