I think the quote makes perfect sense in this context, regardless of the prior application.
As to my recommendation to what they do — I dunno man. I’m a software engineer. I don’t know what I am going to do yet. But I’m sure as shit not burying my head in the sand.
Even if you apply the quote in a different sense, which would take away all its pithiness, you are still presupposing that "AI" will turn out to be a success.
The gross injustices in the original quote were already a fact, which makes the quote so powerful.
