Ex-Anthropic researcher launches Tailwind: $200M waiting for ambitious AI safety projects
jam3scampbell · x · 2026-09-10
Former Anthropic researcher heyanuja, now on the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, is spearheading Project Tailwind, a call for ambitious new AI safety initiatives.
- She stresses that "money is not at all a bottleneck": roughly $200 million is waiting for the right ambitious idea, urging would-be founders to act now.
- Her motivation: the third-party ecosystem outside frontier labs is still too weak to hold labs accountable, so people should found or join safety orgs.
- Tailwind curates gaps in the AI safety ecosystem that funders want filled, inviting applications to address unsolved, unowned problems.
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