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And look at the Center for AI Safety, which says it carries out technical research to reduce existential risk from AI. AdvertisementOpen Philanthropy is perhaps the biggest donor backing rogue AI research, having poured nearly half a billion dollars into various efforts to combat it, according to a Washington Post report in July. Another may be commercial: Existential risk groups often say they need to make more powerful AI models in order to do their research. Rona Wang, a lab assistant at MIT, recently uploaded a photo of herself to Playground AI, an online tool that uses AI image generators to automatically edit images. While hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on fighting a theoretical AI apocalypse, AI models are perpetuating a long, appalling history of sexualizing black women and girls.