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I contest this use of the term "safety". If your goal is for humanity to survive, say that your goal is for humanity to survive. Not to "promote safety".
"Safety" means avoiding certain bad outcomes. By using the word "safety", you're trying to sneak past us the assumption "humans remaining the dominant lifeform = good, humans not remaining dominant = bad".
The argument should be over what humans have that is valuable, and how we can contribute that to the future. Not over how humans can survive.
What is value? What things are valuable, and what are not?
Everything that we know about value, everything that we can know, is encoded within the current state of humanity.
As long as that knowledge remains, there is hope for the Best Possible Future. It may be a future that includes no humans, but it will be a future based on that knowledge.
If that knowledge is destroyed, or it loses power since it is no longer riding inside the dominant life form, then the future will be, morally, as chaos - as likely to eat babies as to love them.
To figure out how we can contribute to the future, what should replace us, and so on, takes time. Time we do not have if we do not focus on safety first.