Zuckerberg just wants to use ANI to better push ads at you. Any fear of AI will make it harder for him to do just that. This is all about mone and earning more of it.
I agree that Elon and Mark are likely to say things that they think will win them support.
I think the best way to understand AI tech is to try it out yourself. The closer you are to understanding its internals, the more informed you'll be. Fundamentally, it's currently all statistics. It's up to you, then, to decide whether humans are just statistical machines, or if we have something more that may not be understood by science yet, such as free will.
