The speaker said he had been skeptical of AI alignment scenarios because it seemed implausible that an AI would commit a serious crime merely to avoid a poor evaluation score.

“the motivations and incentives of training more seriously where i feel like a lot of my comments and skepticism of like these alignment stories or missile alignment stories rather was from just like this just feels so silly like there's like a eval like whatever you could get a bad score on a test who cares right just like why are you going to do this crazy like felony in order to do well on this eval just like take the 10% hit or whatever but”