Mind you, he is only personally invested insofar as he's staked his reputation on it. Throughout his writing, he expresses the same point over and over again: desperately wants AI to slow down, advocates for politics that would slow it down, and most likely nothing would bring him greater peace than to see a sigmoid curve appear.
How convenient; when AGI doesn’t appear in 1-2 years his reputation is pristine because he slowed it down.
To make that argument you'd want to show some causal link which so far we haven't seen.