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Scott Phoenix
ROLE FOUNDERAT VICARIOUSMENTIONS 1LAST SEEN MAY 25, 2026
// BIO
Scott Phoenix is the co-founder of Vicarious, an AI robotics lab, and was an early adopter of the Public Benefit Corporation structure for AI safety reasons.
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mention·Lightcone·MAY 25, 2026
“The first time I ever heard of a PBC actually was from my friend, Scott Phoenix. He started a lab called Vicarious, and he very explicitly said, I'm going to do it as a PBC... if we create AGI, we don't want to be sort of forced into a paperclip maximization world.”
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