On the AI work being charitable, I don't believe it, to be honest. One has to study and get into Google (or the like) if one wants the best shot at influencing morality of future AI. I think that's the direction into which everyone genuinely interested in saving the mankind and genuinely worried about the AI has gravitated.

Can you name one person working in AI, commercial or academic, whose career is centered on the issue of AI safety? Whose actual research agenda (and not just what they say in interviews) even acknowledges the fact that artificial intelligence is potentially the end of the human race, just as human intelligence was the end of many other species?