The author is not saying "AI systems should be shut down, because they might wipe us out". He is saying "if those people genuinely believed what they were sayi

The author is not saying "AI systems should be shut down, because they might wipe us out". He is saying "if those people genuinely believed what they were saying, they should logically shut down their own AI systems." His position is consistent and clear: the supposed threat from AI is based in sci-fi and motivated reasoning. Indeed, even those who are motivated to spread the idea of that threat do not appear to genuinely believe it—either that, or they believe that their own right to continue to do whatever they can to maximize their profits outweighs it.