The AI safety community's defining problem is not that it disagrees internally — all productive fields do. The problem is that the disagreement has become the output. Network analysis of the research landscape, documented in recent work mapping the gap, confirms what practitioners already felt: AI Safety and AI Ethics are not factions within one field. They are separate communities with separate funding, separate methodologies, and separate accounts of what a solved problem would look like. The label they share is doing real harm — it lets both sides claim…