Comparing with articles from a year ago, e.g. http://www.popsci.com/bill-gates-fears-ai-ai-researchers-know-better, this represents significant progress.

I'm a PhD student in Yoshua's lab. I've spoken with him about this issue several times, and he has moved on this issue, as have Yann and Andrew. From my perspective following this issue, there was tremendous progress in the ML community's attitude towards Xrisk.

I'm quite optimistic that such progress with continue, although pessimistic that it will be fast enough and that the ML community's attitude will be anything like sufficient for a positive outcome.