Quarter 1 of 12
Ten points. Place them.
Value delivered, quarter by quarter a running total · —you - -the racer —the flywheel · × an incident, in its line’s ink
As a table
What just happened
Safety didn’t slow the machine down. It let the machine be adopted.
That loop is the flywheel. Safety makes an incident survivable, a survivable incident leaves trust standing, trust brings adoption, and adoption pays for next quarter’s safety. The racer has a loop too; it runs the other way.
Twelve quarters is a toy, but the shape is the essay’s. In A Flywheel for AI Safety capability is no longer the bottleneck; trust is. E-commerce, the essay notes, took off not when the web got faster but when encryption, payments and consumer protection made it trustworthy. The sums here are tuned so that luck still matters: the racer beats the flywheel about one game in eight.
The argument in full: A Flywheel for AI Safety · more play on the Playground