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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 and organizational governance

Inside the memos behind OpenAI's safety retreat

A New Yorker investigation on OpenAI reveals new details around how is safety commitments have eroded over the years. Source: techbrew.com

Importance:Newsgovernance and leadership accountability

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write. Source: newyorker.com

Importance:Opinionpolicy and regulation

Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the AI industry

But it will be hard to assemble a broad coalition of AI skeptics. Source: understandingai.org

Importance:Researchinterpretability and AI behavior

Anthropic reveals emotion signals shaping AI behavior | ETIH EdTech News

edtech, ETIH, edtech news: Anthropic finds emotion-like signals in AI models shaping decisions, risk, and outputs. Claude research highlights AI in... Source: edtechinnovationhub.com

Importance:Opiniongovernance and public trust

States are the Stewards of the People’s Trust in AI

Public trust in AI requires safety and accountability—and in the US, states are our best hope for delivering both, writes Trooper Sanders. Source: techpolicy.press

Importance:OpinionAI safety discourse

Viral X Post Slams Anthropic's 'Woke' AI Safety as Singularity Nears, Sparking Industry Reckoning

A viral X post warning that Anthropic is building an AI primed to "turn against humanity" because of what the poster called a "woke rabbit hole" and a... Source: ibtimes.com.au

Importance:NewsAI safety and existential risk

Anthropic Sounds Alarm on AI Risks: A Wake-Up Call for Tech Giants

Anthropic, a leading AI safety research company, has issued grave warnings about the potential existential risks posed by advanced AI systems. Source: opentools.ai

Importance:Opinionexistential risk

THE AI DOC: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist — The Truth About AI’s Future [3dcaaa]

Is artificial intelligence going to destroy humanity… or save it? In THE AI DOC: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, we explore the growing tension ... Source: fathomjournal.org

Importance:Researchinterpretability - functional emotions in LLMs

Anthropic discovers "functional emotions" in Claude that influence its behavior

Anthropic has identified "emotion vectors" in AI models—measurable patterns of neuronal activity that shape model behavior in ways analogous to how emotions... Source: the-decoder.com

Importance:Researchinterpretability - functional emotions in LLMs

Anthropic study finds AI uses 'functional emotions' to guide behaviour

Anthropic researchers have discovered that large language models like Claude Sonnet 4.5 use internal 'functional emotions'—patterns modelled on human... Source: msn.com

Importance:NewsAI geopolitics and governance

AI Geopolitics: US Policy And Tech Giants Converge On China Threat

WASHINGTON, DC – Growing concerns over China's rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are driving an unprecedented alignment between US lawmakers... Source: indiawest.com

Importance:Newsgovernance

Anthropic launches PAC to shape AI policy ahead of midterms

AI startup forms AnthroPAC to back candidates supporting its policy agenda. Source: techbuzz.ai

Importance:Newssafety research

CBAI Summer Research Fellowship in AI Safety 2026 (Fully-funded)

Deadline: April 12, 2026. Applications are invited for the CBAI Summer Research Fellowship in AI Safety 2026. The Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative... Source: opportunitydesk.org

Importance:Newsgovernance

The fight on the right over AI

The White House's approach to AI development has been marked by a consistent opposition to almost any significant regulation of the tech industry. Source: politico.com

Importance:Opiniongovernance

An AI Threat Looms, and We Are Not Prepared

We need legal authority that allows the government to shut down a dangerous AI system the moment a crisis begins. Source: progressive.org

Importance:Researchinterpretability

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

Interpretability research from Anthropic on emotion concepts. Source: anthropic.com

Importance:Newsgovernance and risk

Agentic AI: Greater Capabilities and Enhanced Risks

An examination of the legal risks and challenges arising from the rapid adoption of agentic AI and the shifting global regulatory landscape,... Source: reuters.com

Importance:Newsgovernance and policy

Trump administration appeals ruling that blocked Pentagon action against Anthropic over AI dispute

The Trump administration is appealing a judge's order blocking the federal government from taking punitive measures against artificial intelligence company... Source: tribdem.com

Importance:NewsAI governance and political coalitions

‘Think Everybody Dead’: How the Threat of AI Is Fueling a New Political Alliance

A billionaire-backed movement from Silicon Valley and populists like Bernie Sanders are eager to stop an AI disaster — but can they overcome their mutual... Source: politico.com

Importance:NewsAI safety and security incident

Anthropic has ‘come to copyright’ epiphany after Claude code leak

Source code for Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude, leaked due to "human error, not a security breach", as the company preached trust and safety. Source: startupdaily.net