The AI Safety Conversation Is Missing 1.4 Billion People

Cross-posted from my personal notes. I'm sharing this because I think the EA/AI safety community needs to hear it, and because I've been living it.

I lead AI safety work in Nigeria. When I tell people this, the most common reaction is a polite pause, the kind that says: that's interesting, but is that really AI safety?

I want to argue that it is. And that the gap it represents is one of the most neglected problems in the entire AI safety ecosystem.