The speaker argues that safety-critical AI uses should wait for a better alignment solution if systems cannot reliably refuse harmful requests and prevent foreseeable human harm, even if the solution takes five or 500 years.

“if we can't do alignment well on the refusals, et cetera, and the cause to harm causing harm to humans, foreseeable harm,”

“even to humans, that's a reason to say,”

“we got to wait until we have a better solution here.”

“here if that takes 500 years if it takes five years like in the safety critical stuff isn't that a reason to you know slow things down a bit sure”