Nobody wants to talk about AI safety. Instead they cling to 5 comforting myths

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news: 10 news outlets
blogs: 2 blogs
twitter: 14 X users
facebook: 1 Facebook page

wikipedia: 1 Wikipedia page
reddit: 2 Redditors
bluesky: 9 Bluesky users

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Title	Nobody wants to talk about AI safety. Instead they cling to 5 comforting myths
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.tavh5fmy4
Authors	Salmon, Paul
Abstract	Too many people still believe AI safety is a future problem that can be fixed with simple laws – but the truth is very different.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	4	29%
Japan	2	14%
France	1	7%
Croatia	1	7%
United Kingdom	1	7%
Kenya	1	7%
Unknown	4	29%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	9	64%
Scientists	3	21%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	1	7%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	7%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 April 2026.

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Altmetric has tracked 34,201,986 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

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