Frontier lab scientists flock to AI safety startups while actual AI harms go unsolved
Ritwik_G · x · 2026-09-16
The author observes a trend of frontier AI lab scientists departing to start or join AI safety startups under the narrative of preventing broad societal harms.
- Meanwhile, actual broad societal harms from AI are happening now, but solving them doesn't fetch a large salary or a VC round.
- The post highlights the misalignment between safety-narrative fundraising and incentives to fix real, concrete harms.
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