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Data point: I attended the London Haskell meetup today and told a few people I was on sabbatical and hoping to help with AI safety, because it's clearly the most important thing right now. Reactions ranged from neutral to "oh yeah, obviously"; no one registered to me as surprised or skeptical.
It was mentioned (in the context of ~"now that AI is doing all the coding, is Haskell still what we want to be using?"), but not much more than that in my hearing.
(I'm assuming here that it was the thing I'm thinking of that I saw on the subreddit and discourse.)
2Mateusz Bagiński
Data point: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/thXohzXrWCA2EhZCH/mateusz-baginski-s-shortform?commentId=BeCm6eKCtRkhvFEAn