The “we get what we can measure” story leading to doom doesn’t rely on long-term power-seeking. It might be the culmination of myopic power-seeking leading to humans loosing a handle on the world.
Also, capabilities might be tied to alignment in this way, but just because we can’t get the AI to try to do a good job of long-term tasks doesn’t mean they won’t be capable of it.
The “we get what we can measure” story leading to doom doesn’t rely on long-term power-seeking. It might be the culmination of myopic power-seeking leading to humans loosing a handle on the world.
Also, capabilities might be tied to alignment in this way, but just because we can’t get the AI to try to do a good job of long-term tasks doesn’t mean they won’t be capable of it.