# Trust AI Leaders by What They Said Before Power and Money Arrived by Vishal Maini > "When deciding which AI leaders to trust, it is worth looking at their track records before they had financial incentives or platforms to protect. Reading what industry leaders said more than a decade ago can help cut through claims that their current positions are merely regulatory capture." > **— Vishal Maini**, *Palisade Research interview, September 29, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and complete contiguous answer:** [Palisade Research interview at 32:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S_Ay87dEy0&t=1962s) — Maini develops the proposition preserved in the poster text. The transcription removes verbal filler and immediate repetition, repairs punctuation, and normalizes obvious caption errors without joining separate speakers or noncontiguous turns. - **Canonical transcript conversion:** [[research/Vishal Maini - Humanity's Machine Successor and the AI Transition|Humanity's Machine Successor — Vishal Maini on Recursive Self-Improvement and the AI Transition]] — preserves the complete source unit, speaker attribution, editorial method, and evidence boundary used for this Reminder. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse|Safety Discourse Is Transition Discourse]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Vishal Maini|Vishal Maini]] - [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]] - [[wiki/Frontier AI|Frontier AI]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "When deciding which AI leaders to trust, it is worth looking at their track records before they had financial incentives or platforms to protect. Reading what industry leaders said more than a decade ago can help cut through claims that their current positions are merely regulatory capture." — Vishal Maini, Palisade Research interview, September 29, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-vishal-maini-trust-ai-leaders-track-records ```