The biggest story in A.I. this week was the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX and his related trading firm Alameda Research. What does that have to do with A.I.? The answer is that Bankman-Fried was a major donor to projects working on both creating superpowerful A.I. and those working on what’s known as “A.I. Safety.” And, for reasons I’ll get to shortly, the collapse of his empire could imperil important, cutting edge research devoted to understanding potential dangers of A.I. First, we need to clear up terminology, like A.I. Safety, which sounds like a completely neutral, uncontroversial term....