fast.ai's narrative is "AI is easy for what you probably want to use it for". There are a ton of awesome applications that are enabled by the level of AI taught in the course. However, Rachel's article is about how AGI is actually really, really hard. So much so that we have no idea how to get there and can't predict when it will happen. So instead of fearmongering about AI, we should instead be encouraging everyone to do awesome new stuff with AI.