Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck
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This week, Cognitive Revolution explores the scaling paradox at the heart of AI governance: how do we build enough institutional capacity to manage transformative AI when founder and organizational resources remain bottlenecked, even as safety funding reaches unprecedented levels? The episodes weave together practical constraints on launching new safety organizations, philosophical frameworks for defining what we're actually trying to protect, and technical scenarios where AI systems succeed so thoroughly that coordination itself becomes the limiting factor.
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