AI Safety Needs Startups - by Joshua Landes and LTM
blog.bluedot.org · 3,715 words · saved by 1 readers
Why the best way to deploy safety at scale might be to sell it.
Blog AI Safety Needs Startups Why the best way to deploy safety at scale might be to sell it. Joshua Landes and LTM Mar 06, 2026 30 1 4 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -25:07 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Summary: Startups can become integrated in the AI supply chain, giving them good information about valuable safety interventions. Safety becomes a feature to be shipped directly to users by virtue of this market position. Better access to capital, talent, and ecosystem-building is available to for-profits than non-profits. VC funding dwarfs philanthropic fundin
related reading
- AI safety undervalues founders — LessWronglesswrong.com
- AI startups: Sell work, not softwaresarahtavel.com
- Ten AI safety projects I'd like people to work onthirdthing.ai
- Why are there so few independent eval startups?thomasliao.com
- AI Safety is Bottlenecked - Opportunity for Impact is Highbriandavies.substack.com
- Your Solution Doesn't Know Your Problem Existsblog.atlascomputing.org
- Sixteen schemes for AI safetymanifund.substack.com
- Don't default to nonprofitmanifund.substack.com
- How to Actually Spend Billions on AI Safety — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
- Defensibility in the Age of AIsethbannon.com
- How the AI Labs Make Profit (Maybe, Eventually) — LessWronglesswrong.com
- How to Actually Spend Billions on AI Safetythecounterfactual.substack.com