What he is really saying is they are going to kill you one way or another economically at first and then when they get the tech right. Their army of drones/robots. He can't just say that outright to this population.

LLMs and current generative AI won't. But there will be better AI systems in the future.

And consider the scale of the datacenters they're building: New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses. They're installing 9GW of natural gas turbines on site. They're planning for better AI that will be much different from the current batch.

While we all know that current AI is much worse than human work, consider that they might just use it anyway, and not care that their product is shit.

He got sold a bad narrative about AI by a guy who runs an AI doom cult in the Bay Area. (The cult leader also got funded by the same industry. Go figure.)

With that in mind, what he took away from those meetings isn't great, but it's the best possible result of them.