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LessWrong (LW)

Online forum dedicated to improving human reasoning, containing a lot of AI safety content. AI Alignment Forum posts are cross-posted here so anyone, not just approved researchers, can engage with the research.

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Forum

Robert Miles AI Safety

Visually-rich explanations of AI safety concepts – highlighting risks, clarifying advanced topics, and advocating for responsible development.

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YouTube channel

AI Alignment Forum (AF)

Hub for researchers to discuss ideas related to ensuring that transformatively powerful AIs are aligned with human values. Discussion ranges from technical models of agency to the strategic landscape, and everything in between.

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Forum

AI Safety Playlist

A carefully curated and regularly updated YouTube playlist to help people gain an understanding of what's going on with AI.

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YouTube channel

Don't Worry about the Vase

Blog by Zvi Mowshowitz on various topics including AI, often with detailed analysis, personal insights, and a rationalist perspective.

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Blog

Transformer

Weekly briefing and occasional analyses of what matters in AI and AI policy. Written by Shakeel Hashim, ex-news editor at The Economist.

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Newsletter

AI X-risk Research Podcast (AXRP)

Interviews with technical AI safety researchers about their research, aiming to get a sense of why it was written and how it might reduce existential risk from AI.

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Podcast

Dwarkesh Podcast

Deeply researched interviews with influential intellectuals going in‐depth on AI, technology, and their broader societal implications. Hosted by Dwarkesh Patel.

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Podcast

AGI Safety Core

A followable list of accounts on Twitter/X belonging to AI thinkers and organizations that discuss AI safety.

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Twitter/X account

The Inside View

Interviews with AI safety researchers, explainers, fictional stories of concrete threat models, and paper walk-throughs.

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YouTube channel

Rational Animations

Animated videos aiming to foster good thinking, promote altruistic causes, and help ensure humanity's future goes well – particularly regarding AI safety.

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YouTube channel

AI Explained

YouTuber discussing the latest AI developments as they happen, offering clear explanations and in-depth analysis of important research and events.

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YouTube channel

Deadly by Default

A primer on existential risk from AI on the Homo Sabiens blog. Lays out the case for concern from start to finish, in language that a smart high-schooler could follow.

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Article

Effective Altruism Forum (EA Forum)

Online forum where individuals dedicated to doing the most good converge to share research, debate ideas, and collaboratively develop strategies for addressing the world’s most pressing challenges – including AI safety.

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Forum

The Compendium

Living document aiming to present a coherent worldview explaining the race to AGI and extinction risks and what to do about them – in a way that is accessible to non-technical readers.

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Article

AISafety.info Book List

AISafety.info has a list of books about AI safety, explaining what they focus on and who should go towards which.

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Book

Astral Codex Ten (ACX)

Blog covering many topics, including reasoning, science, psychiatry, medicine, ethics, genetics, AI, economics, and politics. Includes book summaries and commentary on AI safety.

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Blog

AI Safety Events & Training

Weekly summaries of newly-announced events and training programs in the AI safety space – online and in-person. Run by the AISafety.com team.

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Newsletter

Import AI

Weekly developments in AI research (including governance) written by Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic.

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Newsletter

AI Safety in China

Newsletter from Concordia AI, a Beijing-based social enterprise, providing updates on AI safety developments in China.

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Newsletter

AI Policy Weekly

Weekly newsletter from the Center for AI Policy (CAIP). Each issue explores three key AI policy developments for professionals in the field.

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Newsletter

The EU AI Act Newsletter

Fortnightly newsletter by the Future of Life Institute (FLI) summarising and analyzing the latest developments surrounding the EU AI law.

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Newsletter

policy.ai

Monthly newsletter by the Centre for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) covering AI, emerging technology, and security policy.

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Newsletter

ChinAI

The people with the most knowledge and insight on AI development in China may well be Chinese people themselves who are sharing their insights in Chinese. Jeff Ding provides weekly translations of their writings.

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Newsletter

Cold Takes

Blog about transformative AI, futurism, research, ethics, philanthropy etc. by Holden Karnofsky. Includes the "most important century" series, which argues that the 21st century could be the most important ever for humanity.

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Blog

Bounded Regret

Blog on AI safety by Jacob Steinhardt, a UC Berkeley statistics professor, analysing risks, forecasting future breakthroughs, and discussing alignment strategies.

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Blog

The AI Revolution

Pair of articles by Tim Urban on the website Wait But Why using engaging, accessible explanations and illustrations to explore AI’s potential evolution toward superintelligence and its existential risks for humanity.

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Article

Superintelligence – Nick Bostrom (2014)

Explores how superintelligence could be created and what its features and motivations might be. It argues that, if created, it would be difficult to control and could take over the world in order to accomplish its goals.

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Book

Uncontrollable – Darren McKee (2023)

The most recent layman’s introduction to AI existential risk. Covers how powerful AI systems might become, why superhuman AI might be dangerous, and what we can do to prevent AI from killing billions.

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Book

Doom Debates

Channel hosted by Liron Shapira featuring in-depth debates, explainers, and live Q&A sessions, focused on AI existential risk and other implications of superintelligence.

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YouTube channel

The AI Does Not Hate You – Tom Chivers (2019)

Entertaining and accessible outline of the core ideas around AI existential risk, along with an exploration of the community and culture of AI safety researchers.

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Book

Human Compatible – Stuart Russell (2019)

Explains the problem of making powerful AI compatible with humans. The book discusses potential solutions with an emphasis on the approaches from Professor Russell's lab, the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI).

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Book

The Alignment Problem – Brian Christian (2020)

Comprehensive overview of the challenges that come with aligning AI systems, from the perspective of a machine learning researcher.

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Book

Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics and Society – Dan Hendrycks (2024)

Textbook approaching AI safety as a societal challenge. It covers the basics of modern AI, the technical challenges of AI safety, collective action problems, and the challenges of governing AI.

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Book

The Precipice – Toby Ord (2020)

Argues that humanity's future is imperilled by modern existential threats – ranging from nuclear weapons and climate change to engineered pathogens and AI – and that coordinated global action is essential to ensure our survival.

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Book

Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark (2017)

Explores how advanced AI could fundamentally reshape human civilisation – offering transformative opportunities while also posing profound risks – and argues that we must carefully guide its development.

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Book

AI Safety Newsletter

Newsletter from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) published every few weeks discussing developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.

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Newsletter

AI Safety Takes

Blog by AI safety researcher Daniel Paleka curating and succinctly analyzing the latest research and news in AI safety, with posts about every two months.

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Blog

The 80,000 Hours Podcast

In-depth interviews with people working on the world’s most pressing problems (such as AI safety), including advice on how you can use your career to help solve them.

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Podcast

Future of Life Institute Podcast

Interviews with existential risk researchers, policy experts, philosophers, and a range of other influential thinkers.

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Podcast

Victoria Krakovna's Blog

Blog by a research scientist at Google DeepMind working on AGI safety, covering alignment research, rationality, and personal productivity insights.

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Blog

AI Prospects

Blog by Eric Drexler on AI prospects and their surprising implications for technology, economics, environmental concerns, and military affairs.

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Blog

AI Safety Talks

High quality talks from AI Alignment researchers.

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YouTube channel

LessWrong podcast

Audio narrations of top LessWrong posts, including all curated posts and posts with at least 125 karma.

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Podcast

EA Forum podcast

Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including all curated posts and posts with at least 125 karma.

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Podcast

From AI to ZI

Blog on AI safety work by a PhD mathematician and AI safety researcher, Robert Huben. Currently semi-dormant.

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Blog

generative.ink

Blog about large language models by janus the GPT cyborg, focusing on things like prompt engineering, human-in-the-loop interactions, and the metaphysical implications of AI-generated content.

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Blog

Existential risk from artificial intelligence

Wikipedia article providing a broad overview of the idea that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, covering key arguments about superintelligence, alignment challenges, and potential mitigation strategies.

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Article

For Humanity Podcast

Podcast by John Sherman, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning former investigative journalist, aiming to speak to regular, non-tech people about the existential threat AGI poses to humanity.

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Podcast

Alignment Newsletter Podcast

The Alignment Newsletter was until 2022 a weekly publication with recent content relevant to AI alignment. This podcast is an audio version, recorded by Robert Miles.

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Podcast

Chip War – Chris Miller (2022)

An account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource – microchip technology – with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.

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Book