Ryan Greenblatt can imagine that when AIs fully automate AI research and development, they could be highly aligned, with problematic behaviors confined to niche edge cases.

“in fact these things have shaken out and then I totally agree with like we have a bunch of additional levers on AIs in addition to a bunch of additional risks and it's like kind of unclear how these things shake out and I wouldn't be shocked by a world where we sort of get our shit together the AIs at the point of fully automating AR and D are actually really aligned and don't have that much they're like degeneracies are really niche and limited to some very specific edge case behaviors and some”

“in some specific context and like every test you can run on them they look really aligned they just have great behavior there aren't really incidents of them doing fucked up shit they seem so reasonable and also they're like really thoughtful and good at doing like risk modeling for the next generation of AIs and then we basically like pass off the baton to these AIs they're now running our AI company they're doing all this safety research they make the next generation of AIs even more aligned and we're sort of in this like a tractor basin where the AIs are getting more aligned as they work on it and they're doing a great job”