Priorities

A viral meme titled 'Priorities' by Charles Curran critiques AI safety researchers. It depicts them intensely focused on a hypothetical, cartoonish threat called 'Seedance 2.0'—a dancing seed pod—while ignoring pressing, real-world AI harms like bias, misinformation, and job displacement. The image, shared widely on X and Reddit, has sparked a major community debate about whether leading labs are distracted by speculative long-term risks at the expense of solving immediate problems.