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A group of academic researchers published a comprehensive study titled 'What is Safety? Corporate Discourse, Power, and the Politics of Generative AI Safety' on the arXiv preprint server on February 11, 2025, to investigate how major technology firms define and manipulate the concept of AI safety. By analyzing official corporate documents and public statements from leading generative artificial intelligence organizations, the study reveals how these companies use specific language to claim authority over the moral and technical boundaries of their products. The research aims to expose the underlying power dynamics that allow private corporations to dictate the standards of safety for the general public. Utilizing critical discourse analysis, the researchers examined a vast corpus of safety-related statements to identify recurring themes and communicative patterns. The study argues that tech giants are not merely describing safety as a technical metric but are actively performing a strategic exercise to consolidate their own legitimacy. By framing 'safety' through a corporate lens, these organizations effectively position themselves as the sole arbiters of what is socially acceptable and technically secure, often at the expense of independent oversight or diverse public input. Furthermore, the publication highlights how these discursive strategies serve to normalize corporate-led safety as the industry standard. This normalization process often obscures deep-seated political and ethical conflicts by rebranding them as manageable technical challenges. The authors suggest that by controlling the narrative around AI risks, companies can preemptively neutralize criticism and avoid more stringent regulatory frameworks. This academic intervention calls for a more critical approach to how the public and policymakers interpret the safety promises made by the developers of generative AI systems.