Founder makes the case: hundreds of millions in new funding make AI safety startups urgent
luke_drago_ · x · 2026-09-10
An author who has both founded a for-profit and worked at a non-profit AI safety organization argues this is the best and most urgent time to found in AI safety:
- Capability progress in recent weeks has outpaced even the most ambitious forecasters; trillions of dollars and thousands of researchers push capabilities up while risk-side progress lags technically and societally
- AI safety historically failed to attract founder types; programs like Tailwind and lab IPOs on the horizon are bringing hundreds of millions online
- Founding in AI safety now offers world-scale problems, tangible impact, and resources usually associated with big for-profits
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