I don't know what "safety" even means in the context of an LLM that outputs nothing but text. How is text going to cause me to fall off of a forklift or get me hit by a car? How can text injure me?
But I agree it's unclear what the headline authors were even thinking when they put it in the headline (which makes it hard to say if it's justified by the article although i suspect not), in part because the word in general is often being used in unclear ways.
While not exactly or necessarily "physical safety", I could see the dangers described by this other HN front-page article about AI-powered phishing as "safety". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40981067
SEC regulation violations? As "safety" without an adjective, like "financial safety" or "regularatory safety" or something (and those would still be kind of weird)? Seems weird.
(Note, I am personally a pretty anti-AI person honestly I went to the article hoping to get more ammunition on it, wondering what the "safety risks" employees were worried about were, disappointed to not get info on that, unclear if it was a thing or not).