> What exactly is "safe" in this context, can someone give me an eli5?

In practice it essentially means the same thing as for most other AI companies - censored, restricted, and developed in secret so that "bad" people can't use it for "unsafe" things.

The people who advocate censorship of AGIs annoy the hell out of the AI safety people who actually care about existential risk.

people view these as test cases for the much harder x-risk safety problem

Good Q. My understanding of "safe" in this context is a superintelligence that cannot escape its bounds. But that's not to say that's Ilya's definition.

It's "not killing every human" safe.