I think they meant more along the lines of "This narrow problem today is not worth worrying about, because soon it will be a larger and bigger problem. "
How about we worry about this smaller problem today so the bigger problem tomorrow is less big. Or doesn't materialize at all?
Do we have to sleepwalk off this cliff?
Tech people give you better odds, but you still will find that most believe that AI is useless for something that you know that it's totally capable of doing. Damn, the last one I talked said that "Fable can't even do React"