The problem is they (and the whole industry) have cried wolf so many times in the past few years about the supposed dangers of AI in order to raise money.

Some of us remember the same stories circulating in the late 90s -- where in a lab in Japan, someone had built a robot so advanced that it tried to escape from the factory. Which of course comes straight from 1960s science fiction.

The modern version of that now is Anthropic saying its AI can jailbreak itself out of its sandbox, etc etc.