Why AI safety never attracted founder types, and how new funding is changing that
luke_drago_ · x · 2026-09-10
Mid-thread, the author argues AI safety has historically lacked founder types—people who see a problem and decide to solve it—because the challenge felt distant and funding was constrained. The key change is money: thanks to programs like Tailwind and lab IPOs on the horizon, hundreds of millions of dollars are coming online.
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