Safety Declining -15.8%

Open-source safety tooling stalls on funding

First observed Jan 9, 2026 · last updated Apr 6, 2026 · Brazil

AI Pulse Ethics & Safety
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Summary Several widely used open-source evaluation and interpretability libraries report flat or declining maintainer budgets despite growing downstream adoption. The gap risks leaving safety infrastructure dependent on volunteer labor even as regulators begin to cite those tools in guidance.

Facts on record: 6 observed sources contribute to this signal.

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