Actually those all work fine and don't invalidate his point. No one thinks an excavator drives itself, not even the highly autonomous farm equipment. That was the point, was to say that llms are merely equipment.
AI risk != LLMs; the latter just happened to be so impressive that they shocked us into worrying more about the former.
Which is arguably a good thing: humanity beginning preparations for a dangerous tool before the actual dangerous part has even happened
Except we are starting to do exactly that because too many people are not realizing that neither llms nor ai are actually ai with understanding and agency.
Or really, they do have agency because we're giving them agency, but we're giving agency to things that don't have understanding and that's the problem.