Media channels

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

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

The most popular AI safety education channel, explaining technical alignment concepts to general audiences through accessible explainer videos.

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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

AISafety.com Reading Group

Fortnightly meetings beginning with a presentation summarizing a recent AI safety paper or article, followed by group discussion. The presentations are posted to YouTube.

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YouTube channel

AI In Context

Channel produced by 80,000 Hours presenting thoroughly researched, cinematic stories about what's happening in AI and where the trends are taking us.

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YouTube channel

Siliconversations

Entertaining stick figure explainers on AI safety – covering alignment, corporate negligence, regulations, and societal impacts.

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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

The 80,000 Hours Podcast

Interviews with people working on the world’s most pressing problems (especially AI safety), including advice on how you can use your career to help solve them.

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Podcast

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

Well-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

AI Safety Events & Training

Weekly summaries of newly-announced events and training programs in the AI safety space – both online and in-person.

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Newsletter

AI Safety Funding

Regular newsletter (exact frequency TBD) listing newly announced funding opportunities for individuals and organizations working to reduce AI existential risk.

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Newsletter

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 list

AI Policy

A followable Twitter/X list of thoughtful people working on policy to reduce risks and secure benefits from AI.

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Twitter/X list

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

Deadly by Default

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

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

Astral Codex Ten (ACX)

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

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Blog

Import AI

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

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Newsletter

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

policy.ai

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

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Newsletter

Transformer

Aims to help decision-makers understand what’s happening in AI and why it matters, through news roundups, explainers, features, and opinion pieces.

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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

The EU AI Act Newsletter

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

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Newsletter

The AI Evaluation Substack

A monthly digest of the latest developments, research trends, and key initiatives in the realm of AI evaluation.

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Newsletter

ML Safety Newsletter

Monthly-ish newsletter informing readers about the latest research developments in ML safety. Co-written by Dan Hendrycks.

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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

Can We Secure AI With Formal Methods?

Current-events newsletter for keeping up to date with FMxAI (formal methods and AI) with a gear toward safety, doing a mix of shallow technical reviews of papers and movement updates.

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Newsletter

AI Safety at the Frontier

Johannes Gasteiger, an alignment researcher at Anthropic, selects and summarizes the most interesting AI safety papers each month.

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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

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies – Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares (2025)

Grounded, no-nonsense primer on why building artificial superintelligence using current techniques will predictably lead to human extinction.

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Book

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)

Layman’s introduction to AI existential risk, covering 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

The AI Does Not Hate You / The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy – 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

The Precipice – Toby Ord (2020)

Argues that humanity's future is imperiled 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 – Roman Yampolskiy (2024)

Argues that because advanced AI is intrinsically unexplainable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable, we currently lack any means to guarantee its alignment – making its development a profound risk for civilization.

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Book

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

Accessible textbook exploring AI safety risks, machine ethics, and governance frameworks. Written by the director of Center for AI Safety (CAIS).

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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 Stuart 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 attempting to align AI systems, from the perspective of a machine learning researcher.

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Book

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

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 Inside View

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

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YouTube channel

Dr Waku

Computer science PhD and AI research scientist talking about how AI will likely affect all of us and society as a whole, plus interviews with experts.

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YouTube channel

FAR․AI

FAR.AI's channel posts talks given by AI safety experts at various events, covering topics ranging from mechanistic interpretability to evals and governance.

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YouTube channel

The AI Risk Network (ARN)

YouTube channel run by John Sherman, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning former investigative journalist, aiming to make AI risk a kitchen table conversation.

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YouTube channel

Species

Channel run by Drew Spartz educating a general audience about AI risk through high-effort mini-documentaries.

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YouTube channel

Lethal Intelligence

YouTube channel raising awareness about the lethal dangers of AGI through explainer videos and podcasts.

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YouTube channel

The Power Law

Top forecaster Peter Wildeford forecasts the future and discusses AI, national security, innovation, emerging technology, and the powers – real and metaphorical – that shape the world.

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Blog

AI Futures Project

Blog from AI Futures Project (AIFP), which created 'AI 2027'. A lot of the posts explain the thinking behind how they model the AI future, while others include advocacy – consistently for modest common sense proposals.

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Blog

ChinaTalk

Deep coverage of technology, China, and US policy, featuring original analysis alongside interviews with thinkers and policymakers. Written by Jordan Schneider. Also has a podcast.

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Blog

AI Frontiers

Platform from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) posting articles written by experts from a wide range of fields discussing the impacts of AI.

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Blog

Daniel Paleka's Newsletter

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

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Blog

Miles's Substack

Blog from ex-OpenAI (now independent) AI policy researcher Miles Brundage on the rapid evolution of AI and the urgent need for thoughtful governance.

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Blog

AI Policy Bulletin

Publishes policy-relevant perspectives on frontier AI governance, including research summaries, opinions, interviews, and explainers.

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Blog

Obsolete

Publication by freelance journalist Garrison Lovely about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and AI. Posts around twice a month.

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Blog

Threading the Needle

Approximately fortnightly blog by Anton Leicht about charting a course through the politics of rapid AI progress.

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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

Rising Tide

Blog by Helen Toner (director of CSET and former OpenAI board member) offering analysis on navigating the transition to advanced AI systems.

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Blog

Forecasting AI Futures

Forecasting blog for AI safety relevant predictions, written by Alvin Ånestrand. Explores potential scenarios and makes predictions to inform strategies for reducing AI risks.

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Blog

Future of Life Institute Podcast

In-depth interviews with existential risk researchers, policy experts, philosophers, and a range of other influential thinkers.

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Podcast

The Cognitive Revolution

Biweekly podcast where host Nathan Labenz interviews AI innovators and thinkers, exploring the transformative impact AI will likely have in the near future.

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Podcast

The AI Policy Podcast

Podcast from the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) discussing AI regulation, innovation, national security, and geopolitics.

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Podcast

LessWrong podcast

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

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Podcast

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

The Problem

Article explaining why MIRI believes that if researchers build superintelligent AI with anything like the field’s current technical understanding or methods, the expected outcome is human extinction.

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Article

AI Safety for Fleshy Humans (aisafety.dance)

Accessible, comic-illustrated series describing the history of AI capabilities, the alignment problem, and potential solutions.

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Article

AI 2027

Forecast article predicting that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.

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Article

Preventing an AI-related catastrophe

Article from 80,000 Hours analyzing the existential threat posed by advanced AI and encouraging readers to consider a career in AI safety to address the problem.

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Article

Don't Worry About the Vase

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

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Blog

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