Resolves positively if I believe the plurality of the AI safety field should be focused on this problem. Examples of other focuses would be robotic safety, AI boxing, corrigibility, etc. If I believe some theoretical issue should be a priority/focus with automated AI research as the most likely first application, then this also resolves positively.

An incomprehensive list of things that I consider to be automated AI research: (1) hardware innovation like chip design (2) writing ML papers or abstracts (3) writing neural network code (4) automating prompt engineering (5) automated theorem proving applied to ML-motivated problems.