Published on June 15, 2026 6:50 PM GMT TLDR: We may capture much or most of the available AI safety benefit by reserving expensive, specialized agents for the <1% of tasks that carry catastrophic risk. This would mean that AI safety work on high-cost but highly safe systems could be very useful. The standard objection to compute-heavy AI safety measures is competitive: any lab paying a large alignment tax gets undercut by one that doesn't, so expensive safety doesn't survive the market. This obj