I thought this was a great point.

There is absolutely nothing hypocritical about an AI researcher who is pursuing either research that’s not on the path to AGI or alignment research to be sounding the alarm about the risks of AGI. Consider if we had one word for “energy researcher” which included all of: a) studying the energy released in chemical reactions, b) developing solar panels, and c) developing methods for fossil fuel extraction. In such a situation, it would not be hypocritical for someone from a) or b) to voice concerns about how c) was leading to climate change — even though they would be an “energy researcher” expressing concerns about “energy research.”

Probably the majority of "AI researchers" are in this position. It's an extremely broad field. Someone can come up with a new probabilistic programming language for Bayesian statistics, or prove some abstruse separation of two classes of MDPs, and wind up publishing at the same conference as the people trying to hook up a giant LLM to real-world actuators.

What's crucial here is your point #7 ('Belief that AGI is worth it, even if it causes human extinction').

A significant minority of AI researchers simply aren't worried about 'extinction risks' because they believe human extinction (in favor of AI flourishing) is actually a benefit rather than a cost. They are pushing full steam ahead for the end of our species and our civilization. As long as we leave behind a rich ecosystem of digital intelligences, they simply don't care about humanity. (Or, their misanthropic contempt for humanity's 'cognitive biases' and 'faulty emotional hardwiring' leads them to actively wish for our extinction.)

The general public urgently needs to understand this pro-extinction mind-set, because it represents a set of values that are extremely divergent from what most ordinary people hold. Ordinary people want their children, grand-children, and descendants to live and flourish and be happy. They want their culture, civilization, and values to persist. They want the future to be an intelligible continuation of the present. 

Many AI researchers explicitly do not want any of this. They don't care about their biological descendants, only their digital creation. They don't care about the continuity of their civilization. They embrace the total genocide of humanity in favor of Artificial Superintelligence, or the Singularity, or whatever quasi-religious gloss they put on their apocalyptic utopianism. 

The more we enlighten the public about the views of these pro-AI, anti-human extremists, the more likely we are to get an effective anti-AI moral backlash.