Published on June 11, 2026 6:24 PM GMT A note on process: I used an AI writing assistant (Claude) to help articulate and refine this post through multiple drafts. The ideas, arguments, framework, and lived experience here are entirely my own. Every sentence reflects my thinking, beliefs, actions and my theory of change. I spent twenty years building institutional trust before I ever heard the term AI safety. Not trust in the abstract, but the kind that lives in community meetings, union halls, n