New alignment org "Sequent" launches on the thesis that alignment is not on track.

Jack Clark's Import AI #461 covers Sequent, founded on the view that frontier labs' reactive approaches won't keep pace with superintelligence development. Instead of reacting, it plans a portfolio of "differentiated alignment bets." Worth noting for anyone tracking where independent safety capital and talent are flowing, especially in the same week two Nobel-and-Transformer-tier researchers changed employers.