That's the positive, positive outlook, yeah.

Negative, positive outlook is that it is a disinformation campaign so one may maintain the lead in a particular trajectory of technical dominance. Whilst doing so, as an extra game theoretic safety precaution which also amplifies the disinformation campaign is to fund any research in the direction of the disinformation campaign as both a distraction and 'impossibility canary.'

Quite... deliciously deceptive.