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> We all know all this "AI safety" is for show, right?

No. A lot of people think it really matters

A lot of other people pretend to care about it because it also enables stifling the competition and attempting regulatory capture. But it's not all of them.

I'm personally devoting my career to AI safety, on a volunteer basis, because I think it's is legitimately of high importance. (See my blog, e.g. https://amistrongeryet.substack.com/p/implications-of-agi, if you want to understand where I'm coming from.)

What makes you think it is for show?

No, it's for brand safety and reputation. In 2016 Microsoft released Tay [1] without or lacking guards and it ended up being a failure and hurter the Microsoft brand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)