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🛡️ AI Safety & Alignment

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

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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:OpinionAI ethics and governance

The Illusion of Algor-Ethics

In a recent piece on these pages, Rabbi Mark Dratch noted that the Vatican's new focus on Artificial Intelligence and human dignity borrows heavily from... Source: blogs.timesofisrael.com

Importance:PolicyAI governance & existential risk

Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Casts AI as Defining Challenge of Our Era

Pope Leo XIV AI encyclical condemns lethal autonomous weapons as morally impermissible in Magnifica Humanitas, a 42300-word document calling for... Source: techtimes.com

Importance:OpinionAI alignment & governance

How to Make Sure AI Doesn't Spy on Us or Kill Innocent People

If we want powerful AI systems to respect liberty, now is the time to train them to be more libertarian. Source: reason.com

Importance:OpinionAI misinformation & security

How AI-Generated Misinformation Creates Friendly-Fire Confusion Among NATO Allies – NAOC

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, which is the closest we have ever been to the 'end of the world' in... Source: natoassociation.ca

Importance:NewsAI governance & social impact

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of... Source: wired.com

Importance:Newsgovernance & existential risk

Musk-Altman Trial Highlights AI Existential Risk Debate

Discover how the Musk-Altman trial and AI Existential Risk debates are reshaping governance, investment, and corporate accountability. Source: aicerts.ai

Importance:Newsgovernance

Olah Urges External Oversight for AI Development

Anthropic co‑founder Chris Olah told an audience at the Vatican that the development of artificial intelligence "cannot be left solely to technology... Source: letsdatascience.com

Importance:Newsgovernance

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

The pope has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit. Source: wwnytv.com

Importance:Newsgovernance

Pope Presents AI Encyclical With Anthropic Co-Founder

At a Vatican rollout on May 25, 2026, the Vatican published a roughly **42000-word** encyclical titled **"Magnifica humanitas"**, focusing on the social and... Source: letsdatascience.com

Importance:Opinionexistential risk

The One Movie You Have to See to Understand the Promise—and Threat—of AI

A new AI documentary captures the technology's promise and peril—and shows why Congress cannot afford to stay passive. Source: nationalinterest.org

Importance:Newsgovernance

There is a great imbalance between tech companies and the cultural sector, warns the negotiator of the European AI law

The former MEP Ignacio García del Blanco, one of the architects of the European Artificial Intelligence regulation, calls in Demócrata for urgent mechanisms... Source: democrata.es

Importance:Newsgovernance

Navigating the Future: Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical on AI and Human Dignity. – EWTN Great Britain

Pope Leo XIV has issued the first encyclical of his pontificate — and in doing so, has placed the Catholic Church directly into one of the defining moral... Source: ewtn.co.uk

Importance:Newsexistential risk

“There is a non-zero chance AI could kill everyone,” warns Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark

Trending News: Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark claims that advanced AI systems could eventually wipe out human civilisation if precautions are not taken... Source: startuppedia.in

Importance:Newsexistential risk

Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark Warns Of Potential Existential Risks From AI

The statement was made in Oxford, United Kingdom, during a lecture at the University of Oxford, where Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warned about potential... Source: m.dailyhunt.in

Importance:NewsAI ethics/governance

Pope Leo brings Silicon Valley into the AI ethics fight

Pope Leo XIV is preparing to release his first encyclical on artificial intelligence with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah among the speakers. The. Source: startupfortune.com

Importance:NewsAI governance/policy

Tech Industry Lobbies Vatican Over AI Encyclical

Silicon Valley figures and Western diplomats have held a series of meetings with Vatican officials ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on artificial... Source: letsdatascience.com

Importance:Videoexistential risk

AI Pioneer Explains Why It Poses An Existential Risk For Humanity (gYjblKANL5w)

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, known as one of the “godfathers of AI” for his pioneering work in deep learning and neural networks, joins Kara to ... Source: folhadoes.com

Importance:NewsAI safety research

OpenAI offers ₹3.7 crore for AI self-improvement safety role

High-stakes hiring: OpenAI is offering up to ₹3.7 crore for a safety researcher to address risks from self-improving AI systems. Future-focused role: The... Source: msn.com

Importance:NewsAI ethics/governance

Vatican Hosts Anthropic Co-Founder for AI Encyclical Launch

Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence, titled "Magnifica Humanitas," at the Vatican on May 25, the Vatican and multiple... Source: letsdatascience.com