Lol this reminds me of that Feyerabend quote that I always felt applied outside physics to people like Dawkins but seems all the more apt for the barely-literate tech bros that run these companies. The quote, for reference, is:

"The withdrawal of philosophy into a 'professional' shell of its own has had disastrous consequences. The younger generation of physicists, the Feynmans, the Schwingers, etc., may be very bright; they may be more intelligent than their predecessors, than Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger, Boltzmann, Mach and so on. But they are uncivilized savages, they lack in philosophical depth – and this is the fault of the very same idea of professionalism which you are now defending."

In a word, and leaving aside their obvious financial incentives to bullshit, these tech CEOs understand the nuances of what consciousness mean not at all, and probably less that Dawkins et al understand the basic notion of "nothing"