The speaker considers it plausible that humans could solve the relevant AI safety subproblems and hand the situation to AI systems that manage it well.

“there's like a bunch of ways that things could go wrong um and so i think that like i ultimately think it's plausible that we sort of nail each of the different sub problems that could cause us issues we have these ais we pass to them they manage the situation well um i should note that that's not in and of itself sufficient right so it's not very hard for me to imagine a situation where we pass off to ais these guys are really trying hard to do a good job they're really thoughtful they're really wise they like are have like you know reasonable epistemics they're like doing a great job”