The speaker says many capable academics are not yet engaged in AI alignment because they do not take the issue seriously or recognize the prospect of superintelligence.

“to be more solved than it currently is now i think that currently um there's various alignment teams at various companies that aren't talking that much with each other and sharing their results there's doing a little bit of sharing and a little bit of publishing like we're seeing but not as much as they could and then there's a bunch of like smart people in academia that are basically not activated because they don't take all this stuff seriously yet and they're not really you know waking up to super intelligence yet and what i'm hoping will happen is that this situation will”