Beth Barnes has spent years training alignment researchers through MATS after stints at OpenAI and Anthropic, so when she says the basics aren't being handled, that's a practitioner's verdict rather than doomer aesthetics. On our read, she's right that deployment pace has outrun evaluation and governance — but the 'no plan for superintelligence' framing quietly assumes such a plan is even writable today, which is doubtful. The honest position is that we may not know what a superintelligence plan looks like until capabilities stop moving; what's actionable now is evals, incident reporting and shutdown-capable infrastructure. The post is a reiteration of a long-held stance rather than news, yet it matters because voices like hers steer who enters the field and how seriously labs treat safety. Left as a vibe, the claim is unfalsifiable — the interesting follow-up is which 'basics' she'd fai