Frontier-lab leavers join policy orgs, but few go into government to design AI rules
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-10
A commenter asked whether anyone at a frontier lab has ever tweeted they were resigning over existential risk and then taken a government job designing policies to limit it. The reply: many of these people have instead moved to AI policy organizations, and a funded, impactful US AISI could have recruited them.
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