This recording with Marius Hobbhahn is from Vision Weekend UK 2026, held in London in June 2026. View the recording along with the slides on our YouTube channel.
Marius Hobbhahn is CEO and founder of Apollo Research, a London-based AI safety company that works with OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon to evaluate dangerous capabilities in frontier AI systems. Before founding Apollo, he completed a PhD in machine learning and worked on AI forecasting at EpochAI. Apollo's product, Watcher, provides real-time oversight and control for AI coding agents.
In this talk, Marius makes the case that a specific category of AI safety research and tooling can both reduce the risks of AGI and be commercially viable. He argues that safety and profitability are not inherently in tension, and that the field needs more founders willing to build safety as a product rather than treat it purely as a research cost.
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