i mean, to be fair, these are professional researchers.

i'm very inclined to trust them on the various ways that models can subtly go wrong, in long-term scenarios

for example, consider using models to write email -- is it a misalignment problem if the model is just too good at writing marketing emails?? or too good at getting people to pay a spammy company?

another hot use case: biohacking. if a model is used to do really hardcore synthetic chemistry, one might not realize that it's potentially harmful until too late (ie, the human is splitting up a problem so that no guardrails are triggered)

"for example, consider using models to write email -- is it a misalignment problem if the model is just too good at writing marketing emails?? or too good at getting people to pay a spammy company?"

But who gets to be the judge of that kind of "misalignment"? giant tech companies?