It's hard for me to imagine how machine learning Nobel Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton, someone who is openly warning about extinction risk from AI, is some insane crank on the topic of... machine learning.
Same goes for Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, AI tech CEOs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, etc. who have all said this technology could literally murder everyone.
The CEOs? You can’t get to those positions without a lot of luck and a skewed sense of probability.