Luke Muehlhauser

36 neglected opportunities to make advanced AI safer | Luisa Rodriguez w/ Luke Muehlhauser

Luisa Rodriguez, Luke Muehlhauser

A leading AI safety advocate has recalibrated their timeline for superintelligence to the early 2030s, citing rapid capability gains that necessitate immediate establishment of non-existent governance institutions like independent auditors and incident investigators. To address this funding and personnel gap, the organization behind the talk is launching Project Tailwind to proactively fund thirty-six specific entities, including a Chain of Thought Observatory and an AI Character Evaluator, while rejecting reliance on for-profit impact investing. The speaker argues that with "AI takeover" now the central threat model and technical control appearing increasingly intractable, strategic focus must shift from passive research to active, high-leverage grant-making that recruits founders to build critical safety infrastructure.