Also people tend to use "Expert" wrong in the AI world. No, your programmer who has ten years experience integrating and deploying ML models is not an "AI Expert", they are programmers with expertise with some libraries. Building a system that integrates with ffmpeg for media conversion does not make you a "Video compression expert".
Go check out anthropic's careers page and see just how few positions even require a formal training in statistics.
Meanwhile I don't see a lot of real statisticians who are that hyped about LLMs. More importantly, it feels like there aren't even that many scientists at the AI companies.
Your average programmer does not have nearly the "question your assumptions and test your beliefs" training that an actual scientist has, which is funny since nearly every bug in code is caused by an assumption you shouldn't have made and should have tested.