> People who want to study earthquakes need to go where there are fault lines. People who want to solve hard problems need to go where those problems live.

People who want to study earthquakes don't get paid by the earthquakes.

Author works for a defense contractor.

I'd need a ton of evidence that this particular defense contractor has the goal of doing something inherently safe with AI before I'd read the author's analogy as anything other than the written equivalent of getting drunk at the local bar to cope with a dysfunctional marriage.