"AI safety" is a meaningful term, it just means something else. It's been co-opted to mean AI censorship (or "brand safety"), overtaking the original meaning in the discourse.

I don't know if this confusion was accidental or on purpose. It's sort of like if AI companies started saying "AI safety is important. That's why we protect our AI from people who want to harm it. To keep our AI safe." And then after that nobody could agree on what the word meant.