[NoMoreNicksLeft]

I can't imagine that LLMs are anything other than one tiny component of a true AGI. Maybe/probably necessary, but altogether insufficient by themselves. Even if one could spawn true AGI, it's sort of like the tornado tearing through the junkyard and accidentally assembling the 747. Just altogether improbable.

It even seems unlikely that eve after having invented/improved the LLM, that the other components are anywhere close to being developed.

If his statement were honest and not strategic, then he's utterly irrational and quite possibly self-destructive (even genocidal). One simply wouldn't continue in that line of research if one believes there was the risk of an omnicidal AGI being spawned. It's like something out of a bad Lovecraft story... if you think the spell will summon Cthulhu, the best thing to do is just stop.