This doesn’t seem consistent to me with MIRI having run a research program with a machine learning focus. IIRC (I don’t have links handy but I’m pretty sure there were announcements made) that they wound up declaring failure on that research program, and it was only after that happened that they started talking about the world being doomed and there not being anything that seemed like it would work for aligning AGI in time.
This doesn’t seem consistent to me with MIRI having run a research program with a machine learning focus. IIRC (I don’t have links handy but I’m pretty sure there were announcements made) that they wound up declaring failure on that research program, and it was only after that happened that they started talking about the world being doomed and there not being anything that seemed like it would work for aligning AGI in time.