This reminds me of a thing cory doctorow talks about how tech companies control the narrative to focus on fun sexy problems while they have fundamental problems which expose the lie.

For example uber/self driving cars always talking about the trolley problem, as if the current (or near future) problem is that self-driving cars are so good they have to choose which one. Not the current very difficult problem of getting confused by traffic cones.

I know these problems are more fun to talk about and also could be a problem at some point, but we have some current problems about training models separate from what happens if they become smarter than humans