Well, our teacher taught us that we live in the world "Beyond the Reach of God" so we'd better be aware of what the stakes are. ;)
With that said, my optimism about alignment was slightly increased lately given the research about prosaic stuff. Also, all key members of EAI are very alignment-pilled and will probably focus on that part much more in the future especially if scaling continues unabated.
For those who are wondering about reasoning behind this being the path to full AGI I recommend this Gwern post that goes into detail: https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2020/05
From what I understand, its not just that the GPT-3 has impressive performance but more what is signifies and that is the fact that massive scaling didn't produce diminishing return, and if this pattern persists, it can get them to the finish line.
With that said, my optimism about alignment was slightly increased lately given the research about prosaic stuff. Also, all key members of EAI are very alignment-pilled and will probably focus on that part much more in the future especially if scaling continues unabated.