I'm not sure what you are referring to with "AI safety community". Her background isn't exactly a strong "AI safety" either before joining the board if you read her CV. I don't see there sexism asking these questions.
You’re definitely correct that her CV doesn’t adequately capture her reputation. I’ll put it this way, I meet with a lot of powerful people and I was equally nervous when I met with her as when I met with three officers of the US Air Force. She holds comparable influence to a USAF Colonel.
She is extremely knowledgeable about the details of all the ways that AI can cause catastrophe and also she’s one of the few people with the ear of the top leaders in the DoD (similar to Eric Schmidt in this regard).
Basically, she’s one of a very small number of people who are credibly reducing the chances that AI could cause a war.
If you’d like to learn about or become part of the AI safety community, a good way to start is to check out Rohin Shah’s Alignment Newsletter. http://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/
I think it's pretty safe to assume by now that US state-side counterintelligence has full control over AI safety circles, and given that everything is a nail when you're a hammer, the spooks probably consider these people domestic terrorists and process them accordingly, including active and passive prophylaxis. I mean, what proof do you need when people like OP lose sleep and brag about meeting the spooks a handful of times like it's the most important event of their lives! I guess it must be both empowering AND embarrassing for the spooks to have this situation turn into shit.
If you want to actually understand how the world works at scale, you're going to need think tanks like these that are academics and experts whose job is to research and understand issues. Or you could just watch whatever hatchet job is on Youtube or doing a Twitter screed.
