Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani and Arvind Narayanan launch AI nonprofit STABL
random_walker · x · 2026-11-11
Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani and Arvind Narayanan are launching STABL (Societal Transformation and AI Bottlenecks Lab), a nonprofit research organization to guide societal adaptation and resilience to advanced AI.
- Core thesis: steering AI's societal impact requires taking both AI development and downstream adoption bottlenecks seriously — the latter being a "missing quadrant" in current responses to AI.
- Retweeter Seth Lazar highlights it as academics getting creative: junior researchers considering academia vs. nonprofits can now do both.
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