Stanford researchers launch STABL nonprofit betting on societal resilience over alignment
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-11-11
Rishi Bommasani announces STABL, a new AI nonprofit co-founded with SayashK and Arvind Narayanan, with Robb Willer as advisor. The organization rests on four beliefs:
- Advanced AI will broadly transform society, beneficially if managed well
- The speed of transformation is governed by bottlenecks in people and organizations, not AI capabilities alone
- Managing advanced AI risk requires broad societal resilience — not just aligned models or capability delays — for defense in depth
- Today's institutions often… (truncated)
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