Once you play with time travel having retrocausal power a few years in the past, there’s no reason to limit yourself to a few years. You might as well say that Trump will cause a nuclear war, thus giving humanity enough time to solve alignment properly by the time it gets around to building transformative AI. And why should aligned AIs have all the fun with time travel? Maybe Trump’s election leads through no fault of his own to a butterfly effect that causes a specific unaligned AI to gain these magic timestream powers, even as it disassembles the Earth for raw materials in 2031.
Once you play with time travel having retrocausal power a few years in the past, there’s no reason to limit yourself to a few years. You might as well say that Trump will cause a nuclear war, thus giving humanity enough time to solve alignment properly by the time it gets around to building transformative AI. And why should aligned AIs have all the fun with time travel? Maybe Trump’s election leads through no fault of his own to a butterfly effect that causes a specific unaligned AI to gain these magic timestream powers, even as it disassembles the Earth for raw materials in 2031.