Of course they're gonna interview the guy who's gonna say that - it makes for better viewing! Others might hold more conflicted outlooks, we just never hear about them on popular media. (A quote attributed to Mihail Kalashnikov does come to mind.)

But that's kinda beside the point. I'm more concerned that you missed the primary logical error that I committed in my analogy: the AI experts in question aren't doing the rationalizations but the scaremongering.