Not just the public, but also the employees. I doubt there are more than a handful of employees who care about AI Safety.
so you could say they intentionally don't see safety as the end in itself, although I wouldn't quite say they don't care.
They just have different ideas about one or more of: how likely another team is to successfully charge ahead while ignoring safety, how close we are to AGI, how hard alignment is.
Not just the public, but also the employees. I doubt there are more than a handful of employees who care about AI Safety.