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🛡️ AI Safety & Alignment

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

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Importance:NewsAI alignment/autonomous AI risk

Will AI Go Rogue?

A new study raises concerns about AI's ability to act autonomously, but some analysts view the threat as hypothetical rather than imminent. Source: thedispatch.com

Importance:OpinionAI safety critique/doomism

The AI Giants’ Doomsaying Is Also a Sales Pitch

Companies like Anthropic regularly warn about the risk and threats posed by artificial intelligence—and then rake in tens of billions of dollars. Source: newrepublic.com

Importance:Newsalignment / governance

Former OpenAI Researcher Warns AI Industry Lacks Control Over Systems It Is Racing to Build

Read Time 6 minutes. Tags AI Alignment OpenAI AI Safety Superintelligence Agentic AI Risk Governance Daniel Kokotajlo a former OpenAI researcher who now... Source: vocal.media

Importance:NewsAI safety / existential risk

Elon Musk and OpenAI leaders face off in court over AI safety concerns

Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman are embroiled in a trial focusing on AI's risks to humanity, with expert testimony highlighting the dangers of AI... Source: msn.com

Importance:Opiniongovernance

Xi-Trump to talk AI Safety, Huh?

ChinaTalk is in SF! RSVP for an impomptu meetup tonight. Today, the second half of our conversation previewing the summit that just kicked off. Source: chinatalk.media

Importance:Opiniongovernance

Experts Say Divergent Definitions Stall Global AI Governance

Newser reports that an opinion piece by Sarosh Nagar and David Eaves, affiliated with **University College London**, argues divergent definitions and... Source: letsdatascience.com

Importance:Opinionexistential risk

‘I don’t think you can put a date on doomsday’: Luke Kemp on existential risk

Luke Kemp was drawn to the history of societal collapse after teaching Climate Change Science and Policy at the Australian National University. Source: varsity.co.uk

Importance:Newsexistential risk/legal

At Musk-Altman Trial, Judge Asks Lawyers to Stop Debating AI Doomsday

Despite Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers's best efforts, the Musk-Altman trial has veered into AI doomerism. Source: vanityfair.com

Importance:NewsAI governance/geopolitics

Trump-Xi Summit Likely to Test US AI Strategy Amid China Competition

As President Donald Trump and a group of top technology executives prepare to travel to China this week to meet with President Xi Jinping, lawmakers and... Source: meritalk.com

Importance:Launchalignment/Anthropic

Anthropic releases audiobook of Claude's Constitution narrated by authors Amanda Askell and Joe Carlsmith

Anthropic released a free audiobook of Claude's Constitution, narrated by authors Amanda Askell and Joe Carlsmith, as the $800B AI company pushes... Source: cryptobriefing.com

Importance:Researchinterpretability/hallucination

AI Tools Track Internal Processes to Reduce Hallucinations

Startups and researchers develop tools like Silico and NLA to inspect AI decisions, correct errors, and boost transparency. Source: chosun.com

Importance:Researchinterpretability/alignment

Anthropic says Claude tool can reveal hidden reasoning in AI safety tests

AI safety and AI interpretability research advances as Anthropic says Claude Natural Language Autoencoders exposed hidden test awareness in model... Source: edtechinnovationhub.com

Importance:Opiniongovernance

Four Lessons from Energy and Climate Policy for Governing Artificial Intelligence

Policies to ensure public benefits from the adoption of artificial intelligence bear resemblance to policies designed to protect communities from climate... Source: resources.org

Importance:Policygovernance

Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark takes leading role on AI, internet privacy

Charity Clark will be one of two state Attorneys General leading efforts to examine issues related to internet security and AI, while Sen. Source: yahoo.com

Importance:ResearchAI safety/interpretability

Charting a Path to Safer and More Transparent AI in Protein Design

In recent years, protein language models (pLMs) have revolutionized the field of protein engineering, opening new horizons that were previously unattainable... Source: bioengineer.org

Importance:Opiniongovernance/geopolitics

How China and the U.S. Can Expand Artificial Intelligence Cooperation

Looking back over the past period, even as technological competition between China and the U.S. has intensified, the two sides have also made some... Source: chinausfocus.com

Importance:Newssafety testing

Anthropic Claims Claude AI Passed Advanced Safety Tests

Anthropic Says Latest Claude Models Passed AI Misalignment Safety Tests Anthropic says its latest Claude artificial intelligence models achieved perfect... Source: mexc.com

Importance:Newsgovernance

Elon Musk and OpenAI leaders face off in court over AI safety concerns

Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman are embroiled in a trial focusing on AI's risks to humanity, with expert testimony highlighting the dangers of AI... Source: msn.com

Importance:Newsgovernance

Inside the Musk-OpenAI Trial: A Courtroom Drama of Ego, Ambition and AI's Future

For the past two weeks a federal courthouse in downtown Oakland has played host to a high-stakes showdown between Elon Musk and OpenAI founders Sam Altman... Source: binance.com

Importance:Newsalignment

Daniela Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service developer..

Daniela Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) service developer, emphasized that the ability to build good human... Source: mk.co.kr