AI safety has gone mainstream. More people than ever want to work on AI safety research, and there are real policy wins in the US, the UK and Europe.

But political will and market incentives are now the bottleneck, and policy officers can't own correct implementation alone.

Having built a Responsible AI program at an Accenture joint venture, I know profit-driven companies are hard to steer, but also that people inside them can shift practice in ways that compound: tighter contractual clauses, more scrutiny of vendors and suppliers, fewer ways for providers to get away with non-compliance.

The EU has no native frontier labs, but it is a huge market (with a regulatory body that has an AI safety unit!),

That leverage only works if the professionals implementing AI safety legislation, and drafting the legal mechanisms behind it, understand the technical picture: how to read the research, and where safety promises break down.

The market should be choosing not the most capable models, but the partners with the strongest incentives towards safety, and only a community with this knowledge can spread that.

Earlier in September, ML4Good, in partnership with EquiStamp, ran the first European Seminar on [...]

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Outline:

(03:09) 1. Professionals with impressive backgrounds can feel intellectually isolated- in Legal, too.

(05:20) 2. Practitioners are already reading AI safety research. They do not always know how to interpret it.

(06:50) 3. Non-technical people who are directly responsible for technical consequences have an almost inexhaustible need to understand

(08:25) 4. Legal and governance practitioners deeply appreciate technical safety talent

(10:09) 5. AI safety incentives and market incentives are not necessarily as separate as we can assume- and it's a neglected lever

(11:49) And who understands that dependency particularly well?

(13:03) 6. People in these functions understand that they can just do things

(14:40) 7. Us lawyers? We're also nerds!

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First published:
October 3rd, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KtAug62dYRgAS8sqJ/what-i-learnt-co-leading-an-ai-safety-bootcamp-for-legal-and

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“What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners” by Katalina Hernandez

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