I think if the first powerful unaligned AI remained in control instead of escaping, it might make a good difference, because we can engineer and test alignment ideas on it, rather than develop alignment ideas on an unknown future AI. This assumes at least some instances of it do not hide their misalignment very well.
I think if the first powerful unaligned AI remained in control instead of escaping, it might make a good difference, because we can engineer and test alignment ideas on it, rather than develop alignment ideas on an unknown future AI. This assumes at least some instances of it do not hide their misalignment very well.