Bridging the Gap on AI Safety Policy

Published on April 29, 2026 2:48 PM GMT In February, the Swift Centre for Applied Forecasting launched a competition designed to bridge the gap between abstract AI safety research and the realities of government decision-making. See the original post here. Most AI policy work today functions as a literature review of technical risks. While valuable, this rarely moves the dial for a policy official who has 15 minutes to read a brief and 48 hours to make a recommendation. We wanted to test a diffe