**Me: **“Many people in ~2015 used to say that it would be hard to build an AGI that follows human values. Current instruction-tuned LLMs are essentially weak AGIs that follow human values. We should probably update based on this evidence.”

Please give some citations so I can check your memory/interpretation? One source I found is where Paul Christiano first talked about IDA (which he initially called ALBA) in early 2016, and most of the commenters there were willing to grant him the assumption of an aligned weak AGI and wanted to argue instead about the recursive "bootstraping" part. For example, my own comment started with:

I’m skeptical of the Bootstrapping Lemma. First, I’m assuming it’s reasonable to think of A1 as a human upload that is limited to one day of subjective time, by the end of which it must have written down any thoughts it wants to save, and be reset.

When Eliezer weighed in on IDA in 2018, he also didn't object to the assumption of an aligned weak AGI and instead focused his skepticism on "preserving alignment while amplifying capabilities".