Has MIRI put any thought into attempting to convince specifically Larry Page or Sergey Brin that AGI is dangerous and we need to rush FAI first? If they succeeded at that (soon), I would no longer have to assign >50% probability to a paperclipping.
I work at Google and have given it some serious thought. Without going into to much detail, the timing is not yet correct. However, steps are being taken in that direction.
Google's announcement, Time magazine rather sensationalist headline.
In any case, it's nice to know that Google set its sights to "challenge ... aging and associated diseases". Apple's Tim Cook:
For too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking. Art is one of the crazy ones who thinks it doesn’t have to be this way.
One more step towards "world optimization".