Stanford scholars launch nonprofit STABL to build societal resilience against advanced AI
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-11-11
Rishi Bommasani, co-founding with Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan, announced STABL, a new nonprofit built on four beliefs: advanced AI will broadly transform society; the pace of transformation is governed by bottlenecks that often lie in people and organizations rather than AI capabilities; managing risk therefore requires broad societal resilience—not just aligned models or capability delays—for defense in depth; and reformed institutions will be essential to shared prosperity.
STABL aims to fill a gap in the ecosystem: independent organizations that take AI capabilities seriously while focusing on downstream societal outcomes. Advisers include Audrey Tang, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Helen Toner. The organization is hiring and fundraising.
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