"They are the investors of large proprietary AI companies" is just... not true? Not sure where you're even getting this from. I'm a modestly successful upper-middle-class ML engineer, and I've been worried about AI safety since before Facebook, DeepMind, OpenAI, or Anthropic even existed. The most prominent funder of AI risk efforts (Dustin Moskovitz) is a co-founder of Facebook, so if anything he'd be motivated to make Facebook more successful, not its competitors.