Why AI Safety Funding is Starting to Look Like VC
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-07-15
This article discusses the "VC-ification" of AI safety funding: some are beginning to feel that safety funding allocation, originally non-profit and grant-based, is increasingly resembling venture capital.
The author compares this phenomenon to how the VC industry operates, clearly questioning what incentive shifts, resource allocation biases, and long-term consequences might arise when AI safety funding also starts chasing "return logic."
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