Rishi Bommasani co-founds nonprofit STABL betting on societal resilience over alignment alone
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-11-11
Rishi Bommasani (Stanford CRFM) announces STABL, a new nonprofit co-founded with Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan. Its thesis rests on four beliefs: advanced AI will broadly transform society and, if managed well, be broadly beneficial; the speed of transformation is governed by bottlenecks that often lie in people and organizations, not AI capabilities alone; managing advanced-AI risk therefore requires broad societal resilience rather than just aligned models or capability delays — defense in depth; and today's institutions often fall short of that task. A notable differentiated stance in the AI governance debate.
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