“AI Safety Ecosystem Research notes” by Eneasz

These are some personal notes taken and later dressed up a bit to make into a post. Dunno how much value is here for people already familiar with the AI Safety Ecosystem. Over several weeks in the spring of 2026 I attempted to map out the entire AI Safety ecosystem as a project for MATS Research. This entailed finding every organization working on AI Safety (whether it be via research, policy, pipeline, or other methods) and determining (or estimating) their headcount and annual spending. It's a snapshot, catching a period of time just before the incoming flood of 2026 funding. We worked almost entirely from public information. I believe MATS will be publishing the results in a formal report later this year. I will leave the unveiling of our findings to them. However while I was doing this research I stumbled across various orgs or tidbits that made me think “Huh, that's interesting!” I’m not an insider here (or at least, I’m a periphery insider if anything) so many of these things may be old hat to people in the know. But they were interesting enough for me to jot down for my own notes, so I’m sharing them [...] The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: June 19th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wWX9ecM5Q7TycpKyX/ai-safety-ecosystem-research-notes --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.