You Need A Theory of Victory - by Jason Hausenloy

The cause of AI safety is losing. Consider asking: how can we win?

You Need A Theory of Victory The cause of AI safety is losing. Consider asking: how can we win? Jason Hausenloy May 06, 2026 29 5 4 Share Note: The majority of this post is adapted from a talk I gave recently. These do not represent the views of my employer. Scroll around the organizations on this cute AI safety map . Think about, or ask, how does their work help with AI safety? My guess is that, maybe some won’t know, but most would say “X of our actions will lead to Y self-evidently good outcome.” Maybe, they’ll say, if we measure model capabilities well (we have the graph ), policymakers wi

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