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Back to Episodes“Kairos has raised $50M to build talent infrastructure for AI safety (and we’re hiring!)” by agucova
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TL;DR: Kairos has raised 50 million dollars from Coefficient Giving for two years of funding, one of the largest commitments they’ve made towards AI safety fieldbuilding to date. We’re using this to make an ambitious push for growing Kairos, broadening our portfolio of talent infrastructure projects and incubating new organizations. We’ve doubled in size in the last six months, and we plan to double again in the next six. We now have open hiring rounds for ten roles on our team across events, group support, incubation, and special projects.
Two years in
Kairos was founded mid-2024 with the goal of creating infrastructure to get more strong talent into the field of AI safety. Our portfolio has grown over time: we started with a focus on seeding and supporting university groups through Pathfinder, then took over SPAR, the largest research training program in the ecosystem. Since then, we’ve launched the Generator Residency, a program supporting generalist talent, in partnership with Constellation, and taken over the Global Challenges Project (GCP), a series of workshops to accelerate people's transition into careers in AI safety and biosecurity.
Through most of Kairos's history, we’ve had a very small team: in January 2026 we were [...]
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Outline:
(00:48) Two years in
(03:07) How the field has changed
(06:21) Our new bets
(12:29) We're hiring (a lot!)
The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
September 2nd, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.