AI Safety Researcher Rebuts Claims That Joining Elite Social Circles Is a Career Prerequisite
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-30
Responding to claims circulating online that you need to attend SlutCon or sleep with Aella to build a career in AI safety, researcher Blanche Minerva called the idea blatantly false.
She notes she is funded by SFF and CG, has no relationship with the group in question, and that the group's existence has had zero impact on her career over the past six years — the conversations she has with AI safety researchers are about AI safety.
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