How much of ML research is about AI safety, what is it about, and who's doing it?

How many AI safety papers are at the big ML conferences, what do they study, and who writes them? A comprehensive analysis.> Website: https://ai-safety-tracker-website.vercel.app/> Data, code and plots: https://github.com/SomaxSoma/AI-Safety-Research-TrackerTL;DR: We classified every paper accepted at ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS from 2019 through 2026, using an LLM that reads each title and abstract. 2,328 of them (4.2%) are AI safety papers. Safety's share of accepted papers grew from 0.3% in 2019 t...