I would imagine that the alien civilisations would also make that kind of studies, and pre-emptively prevent the extinction scenario from happening.
Environmental issues consistently get addressed after people start noticing harms, but AI may not give civilizations time to react after they fuck up.
Well, if AI really is such an effective great filter, it would not be so easily mitigated by such predictable solutions.
If you can't implement those mitigations because of politics / economics / etc, then the great filter is in your social dysfunction, not the AI.