On-ramps for mid-career, non-Anglophone entrants to AI safety

Published on July 1, 2026 9:55 PM GMTI used Claude to assist with the translation; all arguments were reviewed and revised by me.I came into AI safety mid-career, after fifteen years of editorial work in Russian-language media – the kind of background that, on paper, doesn’t look like an AI safety resume at all. Russian is my first language; English is one I work in, not one I grew up reasoning in publicly. I’m writing this from inside the US now, a few years into the move – close enough to the ...