Because this article is posited (with its title and the little blurb at the top about the author) to be about the safety of AI.
Unless the title and blurb have changed, this is just wrong.
The title says nothing about safety: "How AI’s booms and busts are a distraction - However current companies do financially, the big AI safety challenges remain."
Likewise the blurb says nothing about safety: "Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox’s effective altruism-inspired section on the world’s biggest challenges. She explores wide-ranging topics like climate change, artificial intelligence, vaccine development, and factory farms, and also writes the Future Perfect newsletter."
What are you going on about? You're mad because you couldn't tell this was on Op/Ed?
(Sidenote: I didn't notice that "effective altruism" thing before. Barf.)