"Safe" is the most dangerous word in the tech world; when big tech uses it, it merely implies submission of your rights to them and nothing more. They use the word to get people on board and when the market is captured they get to define it to mean whatever they (or their benefactors) decide.

When idealists (and AI scientists) say "safe", it means something completely different from how tech oligarchs use it. And the intersect between true idealists and tech oligarchs is near zero, almost by definition, because idealists value their ideals over profits.

On the one hand the new mission statement seems more honest. On the other hand I feel bad for the people that were swindled by the promise of safe open AI meaning what they thought it meant.