I agree problems of bias and privacy are real and important, but your claim about what anyone in ML believes just isn't true, and the article goes in to some depth about it. Experts in machine learning collectovely give a 50% probability by 2061 of AGI with huge differences in their individual estimates. Almost all of them say it will happen in the next 75 years.

If experts were saying there was a 90% chance an asteroid would hit the earth in the next 75 years, would you claim we shouldn't start working on a solution now?