Basic risk management requires that one think both short term and long term. The measures you say to focus on are the short term. They are both important and urgent. The longer term issues are not urgent in their impact, but they are important, and they are urgent in that the window of time in which we can feasibly get control of them is closing.

The long term threats are existential. Read "Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control" by professor Stuart Russel at Berkeley.