My point is that the only thing that seems to convince the pro-AGI crowd is having them make specific predictions, waiting until the deadline, then asking them why they didn't happen yet.
I'm not sure what you would do now that is different because you are anticipating such a thing.
Actually the video addresses this point, the comparison it makes is waiting until we’re already on Mars before we start thinking about spacesuits and airlocks
This is just another in a long line of technology panics. Unfortunately, there always seems to be some "concerned" experts that are both overly optimistic about the speed of technological progress and overly pessimistic about where that progress will lead adding fuel to the fire.
Eventually some other new technology will incite a new panic and this one will become another footnote in history like the fears over grey goo or genetically engineered superhumans.