According to a research project shared on LessWrong, mapping the AI safety ecosystem revealed the field is far broader than extinction risk alone. Organizations now focus on everything from career transitions into safety roles, to economic policy around AI benefits, to documenting AI-induced psychosis cases. The researcher also discovered how the ecosystem's funding creates overlapping leadership: some people hold multiple organization roles not through impropriety, but because central funders often take advisory positions in the organizations they support. The full analysis arrives later this year, but it highlights how 'AI safety' has evolved into an unexpectedly diverse ecosystem.

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