Incubated Founder

Advancements in AI bring both opportunities and serious risks. Atlas Computing takes on society-scale AI risks that no existing institution is built to address — we design the intervention, validate it with domain experts and funders, then recruit and empower the specialist who will own it. You can think of us as: A tiger team that identifies, scopes, and launches interventions that aren't a good fit for existing organizations A design studio developing and staffing product requirements docs for coordination and market failures A think tank combined with whatever their analog of "tech transfer" would be. Some of the most important problems in catastrophic AI risk need owners: leaders who identify an overlooked, high-impact, and tractable problem; develop effective interventions; and ultimately take personal responsibility for bringing those interventions into the world. That’s why Atlas Computing is launching a selective program for people with deep domain expertise and the drive to address the most important risks facing society from growing AI capabilities. Founders will take one problem from a rough direction to a fundable plan: sharpening a concrete intervention, pressure-testing it against the field, building the relationships and founding team to execute it, and leaving with a grant proposal and the backing to pursue it. Our job is to lower the barriers to entry — both...