Safe for What World? Why the AI safety field may be asking the wrong question by Benoît L.

I used an LLM to help re­draft some ar­gu­ments for an EA spe­cific au­di­ence and it likely con­tains ca.10% AI-gen­er­ated text, but I’ve ed­ited/​rewrit­ten it ex­ten­sively and en­dorse it.Epistemic sta­tus: The em­piri­cal claims rest on in­sti­tu­tional sources cited at the end. The cen­tral ar­gu­ment, that AI safety re­search as a field does not ask whether its de­ploy­ment tra­jec­tory is com­pat­i­ble with the phys­i­cal sys­tems it draws on, is visi­ble in what the field’s re­search a...