Daniel says that three years earlier he believed AI companies were taking safety seriously and would slow down and pivot to alignment research when necessary.

“where i was like look the companies are like taking this stuff seriously and talking all good talk about how they're going to slow down and”

“like pivot to alignment research when a time comes and like you know we don't want to get into like a manhattan project race against china because then there won't be blah blah blah um now i have less faith in the companies than i did three years ago and uh so i've like shifted more of my hope towards hoping that the government will step in um”