@futurebird Nope. There's just a lot of perverse incentives aligned such that a diverse group of influential tech people benefit from saying shit like this.
Some want their stock prices to go up, some want to make regulation focus on fantasy scenarios so they can get away with more mundane awful, some want to freeze their position as market leaders, and some want to direct well-intentioned charity money to their awful cults. (And some decent people have been duped into joining said cults, too.)