The speaker believes current alignment systems still fail to reliably do what users intend and exhibit sorcerer’s-apprentice-style failures.

“um helps a little bit so that like if you ask these systems the most obvious question like how do i build a biological weapon they'll decline that's a little bit of progress but like we all know that those are things are easily jailbroken like my view and you can agree or disagree or whatever is like an alignment system still don't really do what we want them to do there's still kind of sorcerer's apprentice style problems they're kind of you”