Today's AI safety and EA discourse was shaped by a small SF cohort that stayed through the pandemic
soleio · x · 2026-09-17
An observation from @eddiejiaoobj: much of today's AI safety and EA discourse is shaped by a fairly small cohort of people who stayed in San Francisco through the pandemic and formed a tight-knit community around 2021-22 — meaning the agenda of AI risk and alignment debates is concentrated in a geographically clustered circle.
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