What would Max Tegmark, Geoffrey Hinton, Yohshua Bengio (to name a few) have absolutely anything to do with FAANG ? They're completely independent AI researche

What would Max Tegmark, Geoffrey Hinton, Yohshua Bengio (to name a few) have absolutely anything to do with FAANG ? They're completely independent AI researchers and geniuses spending their own free time on trying to warn you and others of the dangers of the technology they've created to help keep the world safer. Seems like you're taking a far too overly cynical position ?