People seem to pick an choose what beliefs of Geoffrey Hinton are deserving of the weight of his gravitas.

While he does describe AI as an existential threat, the set of premises about AI that lead him to this conclusion are resoundingly rejected by a lot of the people who are fighting AI.

Notably the degree of understanding and awareness that Hinton has said he believes current models have is way higher than most people who invoke his name would be prepared to accept.