It’s seems Timnit more thinks it’s dangerous (and she may be right). Emily may more be caught up in years of linguistic domain expertise that AIs seem to have just leaped over.

Timnit seems to mostly think it's dangerous because of things other than the model itself, e.g. AI labs' political influence and data centre resource consumption (mentioned in the article). The core thesis seems to be "wake up and stop wasting so much resources on this useless parrot".

She isn’t as big on P(DOOM), but she does worry about things like biological weapons or autonomous war vehicles. Her take is that they are worse than useless, but can be actively harmful.