I mean, an LLM could cause you to get hit by a car if in the future it's driving a car! I can think of various ways an LLM could effect physical safety.

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.