1. Understanding motives is important. The fact that you’re questioning that should be a red flag in hindsight.

2. It seems your rebuttal to the article is “well maybe it’s a plot but just not one they’ve ever talked to each other about, but just happen to all secretly believe in the efficacy of”. Which, obviously: ???

3. We know who wrote this post, and it’s not from “the top of AI companies”. It’s from someone desperately trying to prevent the catastrophe that you’ll be up in arms about in 3-6 months.