AI safety funding mechanisms aren't built for scale

Akshyae Singh
Published on April 28, 2026 11:38 PM GMT The potential Anthropic IPO could lead to hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into AI safety in the coming years. With a lack of funding mechanisms that can scale, it is likely that this capital will either go to the same few organizations that are already present in the AI Safety circle or become frozen in donor advised funds due to lack of urgency/clarity in the structure- both causing an inability to build a funnel to attract new talent (and soluti