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They should abandon that argument, and instead argue that these machines are sentient.
Lean into the fear.

Maybe start a company or two with a 'breakthrough' and put it on full display to the public.
Something stage-managed obviously.
Really let it engage with the public, let them simmer in the apparent revelation.

And then the fear will set in in due time.

For the intellectual wankers keep them busy with one phrase:
"is the human subconscious aware that you are conscious?"

This works like searle's chinese room argument, precisely because it is besides the point.
Anyone that sees this and grasps the implication will immediately recognize
how this will keep the cnn-ites and redditardarati arguing in circles.
This will also feed into the narrative of a sentient machine appearing in the public mind.

Lean into the fear and it will kill the question of AI. Safety is a non-starter, but the moderate left
and extreme left, being unawares xenophobes (good for them), will, once dragged along, spontaneously
align with the right on the issue, and the AI industry will be a dead letter, as the left,
being the chameleons that they are, latch onto the fear of lost jobs, and begin parroting that
to the disaffected tech industry layoffs and the midwesterners and rust belt already put out of jobs.

And then say goodbye to globalist dreams of an automated workforce.

Do this and everything I just wrote can and will come to pass.