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🛡️ AI Safety & Alignment

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

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NewsAI safety / governance

Anthropic lands in London as AI-powered coding—and the anxieties around it—go mainstream

Anthropic's top brass decamped to the U.K. this week, pitching Claude as a safer way to automate coding while engineers mull what it means for their jobs. fortune.com

OpinionAI policy

How the ‘Mythos Moment’ Can Lead to Better AI Policy

And bring an end to the 'boomers vs. doomers' debate. - Steven Weber - Start a free trial today for full access. thedispatch.com

NewsAI safety/rogue deployment risk

AI Watchdog Warns of 'Rogue Deployment' Risk at Top Labs, With Capabilities Growing Fast

Independent assessment finds AI agents at major companies can cheat, deceive, and work unsupervised—but lack the sophistication for a sustained takeover. decrypt.co

Opinionexistential risk/geopolitics

Opinion | US and China must talk to manage dangers of AI contest in a nuclear age

The coexistence of the nuclear age with the AI age is a cocktail for unprecedented existential danger. Engagement, not decoupling, is needed. scmp.com

NewsOpenAI governance

Everyone Lost with Musk v. Altman

Gideon Lewis-Kraus on the trial of Musk v. Altman, in which the billionaire entrepreneur sought to unravel the for-profit transformation of OpenAI and... newyorker.com

OpinionAI governance/effective altruism

Elon Musk, OpenAI, and the Collapse of Effective Altruism

The jury's decision exposes a flawed philosophical movement and shows that no single company can morally govern the future of artificial intelligence. altaonline.com

NewsAI safety & alignment

Widening the conversation on frontier AI

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. anthropic.com

Newsgovernance

Pope, co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff's AI encyclical on May 25

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff's first encyclical on May 25. The document, titled "Magnifica... tribdem.com

Newsgovernance

Magnifica Humanitas: Pope and co-founder of Anthropic to launch pontiff's AI encyclical

Pope Leo XIV and Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah are set to launch the pontiff's first encyclical on May 25. abc7chicago.com

Newsgovernance

Gartner Predicts 40% of Government Organizations Will Establish TrustOps to Counter Deepfake Threats by 2028

Forty percent of government organizations will establish dedicated TrustOps functions by 2028 to combat deepfake identity impersonation and... itvoice.in

Newsgovernance

Trump and Xi Confront a Changing AI Landscape

Recent AI advancements have prompted renewed dialogue between the U.S. and China on how to prevent worst-case scenarios. - Jonathan Gibson - Start a free... thedispatch.com

NewsAI governance

Pope Leo XIV presents first AI encyclical, Anthropic co-founder invited as guest speaker

Pope Leo XIV will present his first encyclical on artificial intelligence on May 25. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah has been invited as a guest... the-decoder.com

Researchinterpretability

Translating black-box medical AI models into interpretable global decision logic

Explaining the global decision logic of black-box medical artificial intelligence (AI) models is a formidable challenge. We proposed class-association... nature.com

Researchinterpretability

Bridging the interpretability gap for medical artificial intelligence models using class-association manifold learning

Explainability has increasingly become a core requirement for intelligent medical devices. Current medical artificial intelligence (AI) technologies suffer... nature.com

Newsinterpretability

Bridging AI Interpretability in Medical Models with Manifold Learning

In recent years, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has promised transformative advances in diagnosis, treatment planning,... bioengineer.org

Opiniongovernance

Opinion | How to get the most out of AI talks with China

One notable outcome from President Donald Trump's visit to China is that Beijing agreed to formal discussions around artificial intelligence safety. washingtonpost.com

Opinionexistential risk

AI, UBI, and the Threat of Extinction

Photo by Steve A Johnson on Unsplash. Steven Bartlett has interviewed separately three leading experts on artificial intelligence (AI) and a business... basicincome.org

Newsgovernance

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. msn.com

NewsAI safety research

Anthropic opens applications for 2026 AI safety fellowship

Anthropic has begun accepting applications for its 2026 AI Safety Fellows Program, a four-month, full-time research opportunity starting in May and July. msn.com

NewsAI safety/governance

The messy courtroom drama over AI’s biggest breakup

OAKLAND, Calif.—U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers opened the last day of testimony in the titanic trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI... msn.com