I get what you’re saying, but he is definitely not humble. He thinks he’s going to invent a super-intelligent AGI within the next ten years and solve all of humanity’s problems. He is dangerously arrogant! More like he is/was pretending to be an altruist - but now that the company has been converted to a for-profit I hope the mask has slipped sufficiently for all to see what he really is.
The article addresses the fact that it’s a bad definition, but since it is discussing a study they have to work with the definition the study used.