It’s bad that AI safety has been co-opted by weird culty people. Whenever something practical and necessary gets taken over by cultish loons the worst case seems to result. Homeless programs, environmentalism, welfare reform, education, social justice etc etc. All very important. Somehow these movements end up being led by people religiously focussed on zero-sum winning vs actually getting positive outcomes and results, comfortable with lying and manipulation if it increases their power. Cults seem to attract psychopaths as leaders. Even if they were driving policies which would create positive results, which seems to be very rare given the priority of amassing power, the groups ultimately generate an equally zero-sum reaction fighting against them, which massively encumbers any progress. What seems to work very effectively is common sense laws, competitive markets, reasonable consumer protections, and checks on government overreach.