Yes, they see it as the top problem, by a large margin. If you do a lot of research about the alignment problem you will see why they think that. In short it's

Yes, they see it as the top problem, by a large margin. If you do a lot of research about the alignment problem you will see why they think that. In short it's "extremely high destructive power" + "requires us to solve 20+ difficult problems or the first superintelligence will wreck us"