If we can coordinate, then we can say: that is where we want to land. That is where we are going. An over-focus on one particular mode of extinction does not give us that. At Oxford, as part of the Institute for Ethics in AI, we argue that accelerating ethics — building a bigger steering wheel — is more important because it pays dividends every year. It can lower polarisation per minute. It can build civic muscle, which helps us coordinate against anything: pandemic, infodemic, whatever. We still avert extinction as a side effect, but we do not make that the main bill.