Researchers launch non-profit STABL to study AI's societal bottlenecks
sayashk · x · 2026-11-11
Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, and Arvind Narayanan are starting a non-profit research organization, STABL (Societal Transformation and AI Bottlenecks Lab), targeting what they call the "missing quadrant" in responses to AI.
Four theses define its worldview:
- Advanced AI is a transformative general-purpose technology with potential for broad societal benefits.
- The pace of societal transformation will be bottlenecked more by the speed of human and organizational change than by capability progress.
- Evidence is needed on recursive self-improvement (RSI) prospects, the pace of AI diffusion, and the bottlenecks between capabilities and outcomes.
- Adapting will require dramatic institutional change and broad societal resilience, not just better models.
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