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TL;DR: In AI safety, we systematically undervalue founders and field‑builders relative to researchers and prolific writers. This status gradient push…

x AI safety undervalues founders — LessWrong AI Alignment Fieldbuilding AI Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 11 % 119 AI safety undervalues founders by Ryan Kidd 16th Nov 2025 6 min read 73 119 TL;DR: In AI safety, we systematically undervalue founders and field‑builders relative to researchers and prolific writers. This status gradient pushes talented would‑be founders and amplifiers out of the ecosystem, slows the growth of research orgs and talent funnels, and bottlenecks our capacity to scale the AI safety field. We should deliberately raise the status of founders and field-builders and lower the

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