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🛡️ AI Safety & Alignment

AI safety research, alignment techniques, interpretability, governance, and existential risk discussions.

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Inside a growing movement warning AI could turn on humanity

Groups concerned that AI could evade human control are recruiting content creators to warn the masses about the dangers of smarter machines. washingtonpost.com

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Anthropic opens AI safety fellowship with Rs 3 lakh weekly stipend, apply by April 26

Anthropic has opened applications for its AI Safety Fellows Program for 2026 cohorts beginning in May and July. The fellowship offers funded research... msn.com

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The digital trail of the 20-year-old accused of targeting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Before his arrest at OpenAI's headquarters, Daniel Moreno-Gama lived in a quiet Houston suburb, worked at a pizzeria, and went to community college. aol.com

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The Case for Responsible AI: How Higher Education Is Setting The Stage for Enterprise Transformation

The headlines around AI projects failing have become almost routine today. Another AI rollout stumbles. Another company's chatbot goes off-script. Another. aijourn.com

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TRIGGERnometry: w/ AI Expert Dr Roman Yampolskiy (Transcript)

Editor's Notes: In this episode of Triggernometry, Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, a leading expert in AI safety, presents a sobering argument for why he believes... singjupost.com

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The many contradictions of Jensen Huang

Transformer Weekly: Debate after Altman attacks, lots more money for AI PACs and AISI's role in UK AI investment. transformernews.ai

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Report warns that government risks ai backlash without sharing benefits

The UK government risks facing growing public backlash against artificial intelligence unless it does more to share the benefits of AI with the public,... publicsectorexecutive.com

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The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot

Power users of chatbots sometimes say they find that language models perform better when you're nice to them. Programmers tell me they spur their coding... platformer.news

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AI Safety Fears: A Skeptic's View

Bloomberg's Par-Miyol Olson discusses the debate around AI risks, questioning the focus on existential threats and highlighting the need for practical... startuphub.ai

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Anthropic Finds "Emotion Vectors" in Claude that Can Push it Toward Cheating Under Pressure

Anthropic's recent dive into functional emotions in Claude Sonnet 4.5 reveals a hidden layer of AI interpretability: an internal “stress response” that... intelligentliving.co

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The ‘Techlash’ Against AI Is Here. Have We Hit a Tipping Point?

As backlash against AI increases, it has also turned violent, unveiling a deep mistrust of a system that would benefit from guardrails, say experts. rollingstone.com

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Trump urges AI 'kill switch' after Mythos security warnings

US President Donald Trump has called for a government-controlled 'kill switch' for advanced AI systems, citing existential risks and recent warnings about... msn.com

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Quote of the day by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “No action is too extreme when the fate of humanity is at

Tech News News: In the fast-paced world of AI, comments made by important people in the field often get a lot of attention around the world. timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Student Attempts to Murder Sam Altman, Raises AI Threats

A **20-year-old** college student, **Daniel Moreno-Gama**, is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO **Sam Altman**'s San Francisco home and... letsdatascience.com

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[un]prompted 2026 – Glass-Box Security: Operationalizing Mechanistic Interpretability

Author, Creator & Presenter: Carl Hurd, Co-Founder & CTO, Starseer Our thanks to prompted for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter's outstanding... securityboulevard.com

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OpenAI Launches Safety Fellowship to Fund External AI Research

OpenAI is expanding safety efforts beyond its walls with a new Safety Fellowship that will fund external researchers to study AI risks. campustechnology.com

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AI Alignment Is Impossible - by Matt Lutz - Persuasion

Artificial Intelligence presents a number of risks and challenges, the most important of which is existential risk. That is a fancy way of saying that AIs... persuasion.community

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AI Safety Expert Warns of Existential Risk

AI safety expert Dr. Anya Sharma warns of existential risks from advanced AI on 'AI Unpacked', urging global cooperation. startuphub.ai

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Saving Everyone, Everywhere, Across Space and Time

Why college–aged effective altruists are determined to rescue humanity from artificial intelligence, and how it's panning out. 34st.com

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TinyBrain++: A Compact, Interpretable Alternative to Black-Box AI

The future of AI isn't always bigger. Here's a compact, CPU-native model for structured data that explains itself and runs 10M+ predictions daily. hackernoon.com