AI Futures Project @DKokotajlo argues alignment researchers can no longer dismiss today's AIs as too different from dangerous future systems: "A lot of those people who were saying that in the past have now switched and they're like, okay now we are getting close, now is the time." "Arguably we are already dealing with AIs that are quite dangerous as indicated by the Hugging Face incident, which wasn't itself that bad. But it's not that hard to imagine a slightly more powerful model creating…