Actually one of the founders of the "Future of life" institute that organized this is a DeepMind "AI safety" employee Victoria Krakovna (who also signed it), an

Actually one of the founders of the "Future of life" institute that organized this is a DeepMind "AI safety" employee Victoria Krakovna (who also signed it), and I'm guessing she'd not be doing this without DeepMind's approval. DeepMind's whole raison d'etre was of course building AGI, which they were initially pursuing via RL before belatedly joining the LLM bandwagon. I'm sure they'd welcome a 6-month catch-up period!