Situational Awareness
Aschenbrenner's comprehensive analysis of near-term scaling dynamics, capability trajectories, and the strategic implications of rapid AI progress for labs and states.
Websites
Essays, blog posts, and online resources on AI safety and related ideas.
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World Models
Research on how agents can learn internal world models to plan complex behavior, relevant to understanding how AI systems develop representations of their environment.
Agent Models
Formal models of agents and decision theory with alignment-relevant curriculum, covering utility, planning, and the theoretical foundations of agent behavior.
AI Alignment World
In-depth technical alignment resources—research, explainers, and references for the AI alignment problem.
AI Safety Info (Stampy's FAQ)
Community-maintained FAQ covering AI safety questions at every level, from basics to technical details, with links to source material.
Alignment Forum
The primary venue for technical AI alignment discussion, where researchers post and debate new ideas, proposals, and critiques.
Alignment Newsletter
Weekly summaries of alignment research with commentary, the best way to stay current on the field's output without reading every paper.
Arbital
Hyperlinked explainers on rationality, AI risk, and alignment concepts, designed for building understanding incrementally.
Eliezer Yudkowsky's blog
Essays on rationality, decision theory, and AI risk from the researcher who shaped the field's early arguments and threat models.
Victoria Krakovna's blog
Research notes on specification gaming, side effects, and AI safety from a DeepMind safety researcher, including the widely-cited specification gaming examples list.
OpenAI Research
OpenAI's research blog covering capabilities and safety, including superalignment updates, red teaming results, and governance thinking.
Transformer Circuits
The home of mechanistic interpretability research, publishing detailed analyses of how transformer models represent and process information internally.
ML Safety Newsletter
Newsletter on ML safety covering robustness, monitoring, alignment, and systemic risk with links to recent papers and commentary.
Jacob Steinhardt's blog
Research and commentary on ML safety, forecasting, and robustness from a Berkeley professor working on practical safety problems.
MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute)
The research institute focused on mathematical foundations of aligned AI, publishing on agent foundations, decision theory, and logical uncertainty.
Import AI
Weekly newsletter by Anthropic's co-founder covering AI research, policy, and industry developments with consistent attention to safety implications.
Gwern Branwen's blog
Deeply researched essays on ML, scaling, AI art, and technology forecasting, known for rigorous analysis and independent thinking.
generative.ink
Essays on AI, alignment, and the philosophical implications of language models and generative systems.
EleutherAI Blog
Open-source ML research covering language model training, evaluation, and the safety considerations of making powerful models widely available.
DeepMind AI Safety Research
DeepMind's safety team blog covering specification gaming, reward modeling, scalable oversight, and their technical safety research agenda.
DeepMind
DeepMind's main research site with publications on capabilities and safety, including Gemini evaluations, alignment research, and responsible scaling.
Cold Takes
Karnofsky's essays on AI risk, longtermism, and cause prioritization, including the influential Most Important Century series on transformative AI.
carado.moe
Technical AI safety writing and alignment research notes.
AI Safety Camp
Intensive research program for people entering AI safety, with project-based learning and mentorship from established researchers.
AI Impacts
Empirical research on AI timelines, historical technology analogies, and quantitative estimates of AI progress and impact.
Distill
Pioneering interactive journal for ML interpretability and visualization, setting the standard for making neural network internals understandable.
EA Forum
Forum for effective altruism with substantial AI risk discussion, including cause prioritization, career advice, and policy analysis.
LessWrong
The original community blog on rationality and AI alignment, where many foundational safety arguments were first developed and debated.
StampyAI Alignment Research Dataset
Curated dataset of alignment and safety documents from papers, books, and blogs, useful for training and evaluating AI safety knowledge.
AI 2027
The AI Futures Project's month-by-month scenario of superintelligence arriving by 2027, with branching 'race' and 'slowdown' endings — the most-debated concrete picture of how AGI could actually unfold.
International AI Safety Report 2026
The closest thing AI safety has to an IPCC report: a scientific assessment of frontier-AI capabilities and risks written by more than a hundred experts under Bengio's chairmanship and backed by over 30 governments.
State of AI Safety in China
Concordia AI's annual report and interactive companion site tracks China's domestic and international AI safety governance, technical research, and industry practice, filling the biggest blind spot in Western-centric AI safety discourse.
Machines of Loving Grace
Anthropic's CEO lays out his most detailed public case for what aligned, powerful AI could achieve in biology, neuroscience, and economic development within a decade, a deliberately optimistic counterweight to doom-focused safety writing.
AI Safety Atlas
CeSIA's free, quarterly-updated open textbook takes readers through the foundations of AI capabilities and risk into today's cutting-edge alignment, evaluation, and governance research, across parallel technical and policy tracks.
AI Safety Index — Summer 2026
An independent panel of AI and governance experts grades nine frontier labs A-through-F across risk assessment, safety frameworks, and existential safety, finding that none scored above a C+ and several had walked back prior safety pledges.