AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult

# Summary The article argues that Eliezer Yudkowsky, a science fiction author, founded an influential movement centered around AI safety that has shaped policy discussions and major AI companies like DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic, despite allegations that his core community functions as a cult. The author contends that Yudkowsky's concepts and terminology—including "AI alignment"—dominate AI safety discourse, and that key figures in AI policy and research maintain close ties to his rationalist and effective altruism communities, which the author characterizes as deliberately obscuring their origins.