Stanford's Rishi Bommasani launches nonprofit STABL to study AI's societal impacts
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-11-11
Rishi Bommasani, together with Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan, announced STABL, a new nonprofit studying the societal impacts of advanced AI, built on four beliefs:
- Advanced AI will broadly transform society, and managed well, this will be broadly beneficial.
- The speed of transformation is governed by bottlenecks—often people and organizations, not AI capabilities alone.
- Managing risk requires broad societal resilience, not just aligned models or capability delays—defense in depth.
- Today's institutions often fall short (truncated in source).
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