The "AI safety" movement is largely built up around the personal whims of a guy called Yudkowsky. Yudkowsky is a man whose career trajectory was "Not going to high school and instead posting and consuming sci-fi -> Meeting a guy who founded a research institute just for him for no fucking reason -> Working for Oxford through a bunch of weird effective altruist guys -> Administrating a website and writing fanfiction -> Being one of the biggest voices on the subject of AI" and used every step of that to try to get laid, which has now meant that "AI safety" is largely tied up in his personal social circle, which means a sex cult.
Social advancement within "AI safety research" is built up around getting close socially with one of a few guys, and those guys exploit that position for sex and participate in and sponsor sex events like this