This is silly as hell, but it seems like a bunch of comments so far are missing the point. Title aside, there is nothing in this indicating scientists in genera

This is silly as hell, but it seems like a bunch of comments so far are missing the point. Title aside, there is nothing in this indicating scientists in general across all of society should be treated as heroes. This article is celebrating the specific scientists employed by Deep Mind (really just one of them), seemingly because they believe AI is going to save the world, not because science in general will do so. Therefore, AI researchers are superheroes. This is a different problem from whatever "trust the experts" crap it is currently fashionable for the "what about the lab leak theory" Internet sleuths to agonize over. This is a problem of AI research being badly overhyped, from the admittedly quite amazing things actually being accomplished to this eschatological fatalism where AI is either going to lead to human extinction or the end of all scarcity and suffering, and nothing in-between, and probably before the end of this century.