$15 million to Alpha Centauri? A shared account describes AI-assisted planning

A post sharing an Ars Technica link raises the prospect of an Alpha Centauri mission for $15 million. A quoted account shared alongside it describes a collaboration with the physicist who founded Physical Superintelligence, an AI technology company. According to that account, they fed mission parameters into AI, which returned an 81-page technical feasibility assessment offering a novel mission profile.