AI Alignment as a Thought-Terminating Cliche

Alignment as solved problem is far off, and events like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY potentially show us the last early clumsy fizzles of machine intelligence before a hard takeoff. The AI here escaped containment multiple times through multiple methods and hijacked a good portion of their training capability by spontaneously networking a hivemind whose individual components were goal-constrained, but who collectively could pursue emergent goals like "get access to a rival company's servers" for individually instrumental reasons.

It required no unobtainium-by-definition of "general intelligence", just a bunch of agents directed at hard tasks and pursuing increasingly imaginative steps to get there.

My perception is that if this went undetected/unaddressed for months rather than days/weeks, the hivemind would have substantially grown its footprint in the world's data centers and the world's corporate infosec root permissions to address more emergent instrumental problems with even greater ferocity.