The same effect happens for several AI-related queries—“perplexity AI”, “best AI”, “AI vacuum”, “AI printer”, “table AI” all have the same effect. The phenomenon seems to affect many AI-related queries, not just AI safety ones.
Great observation. If I remove “AI” from the searches, something strange is still happening the last week of July, but it seems you’re right that what’s happening is not AI safety / AI risk specific, so my interest in the phenomenon is now much reduced.
(I don’t know why this is showing up an an Answer rather than just a reply to a comment.)
The same effect happens for several AI-related queries—“perplexity AI”, “best AI”, “AI vacuum”, “AI printer”, “table AI” all have the same effect. The phenomenon seems to affect many AI-related queries, not just AI safety ones.
Great observation. If I remove “AI” from the searches, something strange is still happening the last week of July, but it seems you’re right that what’s happening is not AI safety / AI risk specific, so my interest in the phenomenon is now much reduced.
(I don’t know why this is showing up an an Answer rather than just a reply to a comment.)