Please explain how this tactic relates here. In this case we have the AI companies saying this technology is potentially very harmful, in fact existential. This seems the complete opposite of what big tobacco did.

What I meant by

> People seem unable to make up their mind if AI is very dangerous or is it not.

Is that the article says 2 contradictory things:

1. AI companies are misleading us when they say their tech is dangerous and people should be afraid.

2. AI is currently very dangerous and people should be afraid.

Anecdotally, people on the internet (including HN), seem unable to agree on whether AI is real or overblown "hype".