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🛡️ AI Safety & Alignment

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

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Importance:NewsAI policy/governance

The best AI bill yet may not get far

Transformer Weekly: The Obernolte-Trahan AI Act, Trump's executive order, and Anthropic discusses a pause. Source: transformernews.ai

Importance:OpinionAI governance/geopolitics

Can China and the U.S. Work Together on Preventing Human Extinction?

Despite intensifying U.S.-China competition in AI, both countries share a strong interest in cooperating on AI safety, as advanced and potentially... Source: chinausfocus.com

Importance:Newsexistential risk / governance

Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk

The $1 trillion startup warns artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention. Source: wsj.com

Importance:NewsAI safety research training

MATS Program Autumn 2026 ($12.5k stipend)

Deadline: June 7, 2026. Applications for the MATS Program Autumn 2026 are now open. The MATS Program is a 10 to 12-week research fellowship designed to... Source: opportunitydesk.org

Importance:Newsgovernance / policy

Do voters care about existential AI risks? One Senate candidate thinks so

Democrat Mallory McMorrow has released an unusually detailed AI agenda. Will it be a vote winner? Source: transformernews.ai

Importance:NewsAI biosecurity/governance

OpenAI and Anthropic Push for Bioweapon DNA Tracking

Leading AI labs urge lawmakers to monitor synthetic DNA sequences amid AI biosecurity fears. Source: techbuzz.ai

Importance:NewsAI safety discourse

The Pope chose this atheist Anthropic cofounder to sit beside him and talk about the danger of AI

Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV as he delivered his first encyclical on the dangers of AI was a curious speaker: a self-declared atheist and the billionaire... Source: fortune.com

Importance:Opinionexistential risk

Welcome to the Machine

The transition toward superintelligence will come with serious risks—from economic disruption, to misuse in areas like cybersecurity and biology, to the... Source: cei.org

Importance:PolicyAI governance

Assessing Trump’s Executive Order on AI Oversight

The much-anticipated presidential order signals a change for an administration that has resisted regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). Source: cfr.org

Importance:OpinionAI governance

The AI ‘Revolution' is Not a People's Revolution

If this revolution is something happening to us, then nobody is accountable for deciding how it happens, say Vassilis Galanos, Tania Duarte,... Source: techpolicy.press

Importance:NewsAI safety accountability/legal

Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of putting profit over safety

Florida seeks to hold Altman personally liable, accusing OpenAI of marketing ChatGPT as safe while concealing that it could drive users toward harm. Source: nbcnews.com

Importance:Newsexistential risk/governance

Bernie Sanders warns of AI’s existential risk, calls for US-China cooperation

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has become a stark voice on AI in Washington warning of the technology's more severe risks and calling for cooperation with... Source: aol.com

Importance:NewsAI safety hiring/org

OpenAI’s $445,000 AI Safety Hiring Push Shows Why AI Training Has Become a Strategic Business Priority

The position focuses on anticipating future risks associated with advanced AI systems and ensuring that innovation progresses alongside safety measures. Source: aicerts.ai

Importance:Opinionexistential risk discussion

Bill Gurley Calls Anthropic 'Midwifing a Deity'

Venture capitalist Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, said on the All-In Podcast that after spending a month researching **Anthropic** he... Source: letsdatascience.com

Importance:OpinionAI governance/accountability

Digital Advertising Needs Guardrails For AI

The real AI risk in digital advertising isn't automation, it's autonomous decision-making without accountability and sufficient oversight. Source: adexchanger.com

Importance:NewsAI safety fellowship/alignment

Anthropic AI safety fellowship 2026: How to apply, $15,000 funding, duration & hiring chances

Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI researchers, has positioned itself as one of the leading firms focused on AI alignment and “steerable” AI systems. Source: msn.com

Importance:Opinionexistential risk

Doomers and Accelerationists Debate AI Extinction Risk

El Pais reports that academics Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue in their new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, that continued improvements in... Source: letsdatascience.com

Importance:NewsAI industry

Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI In Valuation After Massive $65 Billion Funding Round

Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI as the world's most valuable artificial intelligence startup after raising $65 billion in a new funding round. Source: inkl.com

Importance:Newsgovernance

Organizations Adopt AI While Governance Lags

The C# Corner article by John Godel, published May 2026, documents a widening gap between AI adoption and governance. Per **Stanford's 2025 AI Index**,... Source: letsdatascience.com

Importance:Newsgovernance

Anthropic joins Vatican to launch Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical focusing on risks of AI in warfare

Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence, the Vatican said on May 16, as he gears up to release his first encyclical that is... Source: milwaukeeindependent.com