Five Emails in a Week: Technical People Are Pivoting to AI Safety
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-09
NatPurser reports getting 5 emails in one week from technical, non-policy people asking how to get involved in AI safety. Amid a timeline of "constant, fever pitch AI anxiety," she sees people reorienting careers toward one of the era's greatest coordination problems: "focus on what's tractable… there are no foregone conclusions." Former OpenAI safety lead Miles Brundage amplified it, noting this perspective is fairly frequent in the AI world.
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