I don’t think they’re closely tied in the public mind, but I do think the connection is known to the organs of media and government that interact with AI alignment. It comes up often enough, in the background—details like FTX having a large stake in Anthropic, for example. And the opponents of AI x-risk and EA certainly try to bring it up as often as possible.
Basically, my model is that FTX seriously undermined the insider credibility of AINotKillEveryoneIsm’s most institutionally powerful proponents, but the remaining credibility was enough to work with.
I don’t think they’re closely tied in the public mind, but I do think the connection is known to the organs of media and government that interact with AI alignment. It comes up often enough, in the background—details like FTX having a large stake in Anthropic, for example. And the opponents of AI x-risk and EA certainly try to bring it up as often as possible.
Basically, my model is that FTX seriously undermined the insider credibility of AINotKillEveryoneIsm’s most institutionally powerful proponents, but the remaining credibility was enough to work with.