Exactly. Which is why this shows they don't genuinely believe their own hype and fear-mongering. This says more than anything that people at the cutting edge don't really think AGI is on the horizon.
They're heavily incentivized not to! Exxon executives in the 80s disbelieved in climate change, too, despite reports from their internal "safety" teams that it was going to be a big problem.
The company that develops real AGI will become a trillion dollar company over night (and destroy all the competition). They are massively live-or-die incentivised.