This argument is similar to the facile arguments that "al gore doesn't care about climate change because he takes a private plane too get to conferences". Al G

This argument is similar to the facile arguments that "al gore doesn't care about climate change because he takes a private plane too get to conferences". Al Gore may believe that the net impact of getting his message out may overwhelm the cost of his flights. Likewise, the author may believe that his best path to stopping the advance of ai may lie in communicating and building consensus, rather than running his own bombing campaign.