Funding Safety After Creating the Risk

AI safety funding can support important work on protecting children and young people. Research, safeguards and public-interest technology all need resources.

But the meme asks a harder question: what happens when the same technological systems creating new risks are being developed at enormous speed, while safety work is funded later as a response?

Prevention matters. Safety should not only arrive after harm becomes visible. The social sector has seen this pattern before: create the intervention first, then fund the safeguards. Sometimes the first investment should be understanding the risks.