You’d have to use a broad sense of “political” to make this true (maybe amounting to “controversial”). Nobody is advocating blanket avoidance of controversial opinions, only blanket avoidance of narrow-sense politics, and even then with a strong exception of “if you can make a case that it’s genuinely important to the fate of humanity in the way that AI alignment is important to the fate of humanity, go ahead”. At no point could anyone have used the proposed norms to prevent discussion of AI alignment.
Not within the mainstream politics, but within academic / corporate CS and AI departments.
You’d have to use a broad sense of “political” to make this true (maybe amounting to “controversial”). Nobody is advocating blanket avoidance of controversial opinions, only blanket avoidance of narrow-sense politics, and even then with a strong exception of “if you can make a case that it’s genuinely important to the fate of humanity in the way that AI alignment is important to the fate of humanity, go ahead”. At no point could anyone have used the proposed norms to prevent discussion of AI alignment.