AI existential risk is a really unusual candidate for this generation’s Boogeyman. Unless you’re a specific kind of nerdy techy person, the idea isn’t emotionally resonant in the same way your children being abused in a Satanic ritual is for most people. Perhaps a better candidate would be transgender people? A lot of people are freaking out over the idea of trans people abusing their children in much the same way people did with Satanic cults.
Also, for all the arguments you’ve actually said, this post just as readily applies to global warming/climate change.
Does anyone know the precise number of people who are threatening to resign?