[joe_the_user]

However, I think it's incredibly important to reject the reframing of "AI safety" as anything other than the existential risk AGI poses to most of humanity.

I think the folks who lean super-hard on the existential risk problem of AGI compared to everything else do themselves a disservice. The "everything else is irrelevant" tone serves to alien people who have with real concerns about other dangers like climate change and who might in include AGI safety in their existing concerns.

It doesn't help that a lot of the existential risk theorists seem to come from market fundamentalist positions that don't appear to have a problem with serious markets of corporate behavior.

AI safety is not about whether "tech bros are going to be mean to women".

Just as an example. Why you even need to chose between this stuff? Why can't people worried about "X-risk" also concern themselves with mundane problem? Why set-up a fight between? That won't get people outside the X-risk bubble interested, it will reinforce the impression that the group's a nutty cult (just as the FTX connection did).

For the sake of your cause, I strong suggest not framing it that way. Do climate people say "individual species extinction doesn't matter 'cause climate change is bigger?" No. Get a clue.