Why now is the best time ever to found an AI safety startup, from alignment to governance
luke_drago_ · x · 2026-09-10
In the closing thread of his case for founding in AI safety, the author lists urgent areas of work: alignment and control, extreme concentration of power, AI governance and policy, and societal resilience to risks. His earlier argument: capability progress is outpacing even ambitious forecasts, with trillions of dollars and thousands of researchers pushing the capabilities line up while risk-side progress lags; programs like Tailwind and impending lab IPOs are bringing hundreds of millions in funding online, non-profit downsides are fading, making this the best and most urgent time to found in AI safety.
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