EigenGender: Friend-Network Hiring in AI Safety Is Bad Because of the Field's Monoculture
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-30
EigenGender doubles down on his take about AI safety org hiring: selecting heavily on friend networks is problematic in large part because of the monoculture in AI safety organizations, whereas doing the same when building a generic SaaS startup would not be bad.
He reframes the controversy from "is hiring via personal networks acceptable" to whether field-wide homogeneity is the real problem.
Related event: AI Safety Hiring Culture Sparks Homogeneity Debate(2 posts)→
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