I have followed EA for ten years and there is absolutely no doubt that its most prominent voices - Will MacAskill, Nick Bostrom, Rob Wiblin, Eliezer Yudkowsky, not to mention Sam Bankman-Fried - ascribe enormous significance to AI. I myself have yet to see a compelling argument as to how AGI is possible, let alone dangerous.

If you look at 80,000 hours' list of 'most pressing problems', AI safety is first:

https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/

Open Phil has donated $250m to AI safety according to its website:

https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/potential-risks-advan...

In terms of volume of people, definitely. In terms of big thought leaders in the community and famous voices in the tech gazillionaire circles? They've definitely moved on to this weird new thing. And its clear that they are just making it up as they go along rather than engaging with any actual intellectual heritage here.