The case for AI safety capacity-building work

You can have large, predictable effects on getting people to work on important things.

The case for AI safety capacity-building work You can have large, predictable effects on getting people to work on important things. Asya Bergal Mar 10, 2026 16 1 Share TL;DR: I think many of the marginal hires at larger organizations doing AI safety technical or policy work right now (including e.g. Apollo, Redwood, METR, RAND, GovAI, Epoch, UKAISI, and Anthropic’s safety teams) would be capable of founding (or being early employees of) organizations focused on building capacity in AI safety, and would have more impact by doing so. I think the impact case for this kind of work is supported by

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