Both factions in this appear publicly to see AGI as imminent, and mishandling its imminence to be an existential threat; the dispute appears to be about what to do about that imminence. If they didn't both see it as imminent, the dispute would probably be less intense.
This has something of a character of a doctrinal dispute among true believers in a millennial cult
This has something of a character of a doctrinal dispute among true believers in a millennial cult