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🛡️ AI Safety & Alignment

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

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Importance:Newsgovernance

The Backlash Against the Machines

Public resistance to artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from online outrage into a more volatile and confrontational movement, with growing numbers... Source: slguardian.org

Importance:Newsinterpretability

Goodfire – Weekly Recap

Goodfire is an AI safety and tooling company focused on improving the reliability and controllability of large language models, and this weekly recap... Source: tipranks.com

Importance:Newsalignment/interpretability

Anthropic says internet posts about ‘Evil AI’ behind Claude’s blackmail threats

Anthropic's latest research comes at a time when researchers are struggling to ensure that AI models are better-aligned with human behaviour and interests... Source: indianexpress.com

Importance:Newsalignment/safety 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.co

Importance:Opinionexistential risk

Creators and Destroyers of Worlds

Progress inevitably creates Inescapable Existential Dangers (IEDs): technological developments that yield huge benefits with high extinction risks. Source: quillette.com

Importance:Newsinternational AI safety cooperation

Bernie Sanders invited two Chinese AI researchers to talk safety cooperation. Here is what they said.

Xue Lan of Tsinghua and Zeng Yi of PKU joined the Capitol Hill discussion that highlighted advanced AI poses risks no country can manage alone. Source: pekingnology.com

Importance:Opinionexistential risk / AI philosophy

Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’

Philosopher Nick Bostrom recently posted a paper, where he postulated that a small chance of AI annihilating all humans might be worth the risk,... Source: wired.com

Importance:NewsAI safety / self-improvement risks

The Clash Between the Pentagon and Anthropic: The Ethics of AI at Stake

Anthropic, the AI laboratory that has championed safety, has acknowledged in writing that its systems show early signs of self-improvement. Source: elciudadano.com

Importance:OpinionAI governance / politics

AI, Democracy And The Politics Of The Kitchen Table

Senator Bernie Sanders sits at one end of a long, glossy conference table in a quiet room, facing an empty microphone stand extended towards him from across... Source: forbes.com

Importance:NewsAI safety research agenda

Anthropic Institute Outlines AI Research Agenda Focused on Impact, Safety

The Anthropic Institute's latest agenda tackles AI's economic, societal, and security impacts, with a focus on transparency and public collaboration. Source: mexc.co

Importance:OpinionUS-China AI race narrative

How American companies push the idea of an AI race with China

AI companies have pushed the idea of a race with China. The story serves them — but may have consequences for the rest of us. Source: transformernews.ai

Importance:NewsAI governance and guardrails

News brief: Security worries and warnings as AI use expands

As AI adoption surges across all industries, experts urge caution. Learn about the steps governments and organizations are taking to set up guardrails. Source: techtarget.com

Importance:Newsgovernance/international cooperation

Artificial intelligence revives a cold-war-style dilemma

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping may discuss artificial intelligence cooperation when they meet, as both America and China grapple with AI safety risks and... Source: economist.com

Importance:NewsAI governance/regulation

Trump administration suddenly embraces AI oversight ideas it once rejected

The cybersecurity risks of Anthropic's Mythos AI model has woken Washington up to the need for AI regulation. Source: fortune.com

Importance:NewsAI safety testing/policy

Mythos vulnerability scare forces Trump White House to revive pre-release AI safety testing

Trump White House advances AI pre-release testing executive order after Anthropic Mythos vulnerability demo, with CAISI voluntary deals with Google, Source: startupfortune.com

Importance:Newsgovernance/existential risk

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

Sen. Bernie Sanders warns of AI's risks and calls for international cooperation with China, contrasting with Washington's focus on competition. Source: thehill.com

Importance:NewsAI safety testing/governance

Child safety lab launching independent crash testing for AI tools

Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes that have saved thousands of lives... Source: msn.com

Importance:Opinionexistential risk culture

Is a secular religion propelling the AI race?

(RNS) — Philosopher Émile P. Torres contends that a bundle of techno-utopian ideologies is ubiquitous in Silicon Valley. AI 'doomers' and 'accelerationists'... Source: religionnews.com

Importance:NewsAI safety governance

Child safety lab launching ‘independent crash testing’ for AI tools

Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes that have saved thousands of lives... Source: cnn.com

Importance:Newsexistential risk / AI safety litigation

Judge limits AI expert's testimony in Musk–OpenAI trial

The fifth day of Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI saw AI expert Stuart Russell's high-paid testimony curtailed after the judge ruled existential AI risk... Source: msn.com