The frontier labs, on the other hand, are thinking about replacing all human labor, ending death, and the risk of it causing human extinction. Most of the apparatus we're talking about approach it very parochially; it's almost like they're embarrassed to take the grander ideas even a little seriously, for being too nerdy/sci-fi.
They'll show up after the fact and whinge endlessly about how they should have been involved.
Or maybe every cultural group has its own set of whiners and we always think the ones we disagree with are the loudest.