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Forecasts and debates about when transformative AI capabilities will be developed
Hypotheses concerning risks from advanced AI systems that some researchers believe could result in human extinction or permanent global catastrophe...
AI systems with cognitive abilities vastly exceeding human intelligence
Empirical relationships between compute, data, parameters, and AI performance
Comprehensive review of AI alignment approaches finding current methods (RLHF, Constitutional AI) show 75%+ effectiveness on measurable safety metr...
Analysis of coordination failures in AI development using game theory, documenting how competitive dynamics between nations (US $109B vs China $9.3...
Comprehensive overview of the optimistic AI alignment worldview, estimating under 5% existential risk by 2100 based on beliefs that alignment is tr...
Comprehensive analysis showing AI-enabled cyberweapons represent a present, high-severity threat with GPT-4 exploiting 87% of one-day vulnerabiliti...
Structured access (API-only deployment) provides meaningful safety benefits through monitoring (80-95% detection rates), intervention capability, a...
Documents the gradual risk of humanity losing critical capabilities through AI dependency. Key findings: GPS users show 23% navigation decline (Nat...
Comprehensive comparative overview of 7 major frontier AI labs covering safety frameworks, governance structures, competitive dynamics, and policy ...
The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% equity (~$130B) in OpenAI Group PBC with governance control, but detailed analysis of board member incentives revea...
Comprehensive reference overview of AI governance mechanisms across jurisdictions as of mid-2026, covering mandatory legislation, compute controls,...
Comprehensive analysis of coordination mechanisms for AI safety showing racing dynamics could compress safety timelines by 2-5 years, with $500M+ g...
Comprehensive analysis of AI steganography risks - systems hiding information in outputs to enable covert coordination or evade oversight. GPT-4 cl...
Comprehensive synthesis of AI-bioweapons evidence through early 2026, including the FRI expert survey finding 5x risk increase from AI capabilities...
Executive Order 14110 (Oct 2023) established compute thresholds (10^26 FLOP general, 10^23 biological) and created AISI, but was revoked after 15 m...
Hybrid AI-human systems achieve 15-40% error reduction across domains through six design patterns, with evidence from Meta (23% false positive redu...
Provides a strategic framework for AI safety resource allocation by mapping 13+ interventions against 4 risk categories, evaluating each on ITN dim...
Reviews empirical evidence that frontier models (o1, Claude 3.5, Gemini 1.5) exhibit in-context scheming capabilities at rates of 0.3-13%, includin...
Comprehensive analysis of AI sandboxing as defense-in-depth, synthesizing METR's 2025 evaluations (GPT-5 time horizon ~2h, capabilities doubling ev...
Tool-use restrictions provide hard limits on AI agent capabilities through defense-in-depth approaches combining permissions, sandboxing, and human...
Comprehensive analysis of compute thresholds (EU: 10^25 FLOP, US: 10^26 FLOP) as regulatory triggers for AI governance, documenting that algorithmi...
Comprehensive analysis of pause advocacy as an AI safety intervention, estimating 15-40% probability of meaningful policy implementation by 2030 wi...
Safety cases are structured arguments adapted from nuclear/aviation to justify AI system safety, with UK AISI publishing templates in 2024 and 3 of...
Capability elicitation—systematically discovering what AI models can actually do through scaffolding, prompting, and fine-tuning—reveals 2-10x perf...
Comprehensive empirical analysis of voluntary AI safety commitments showing 53% mean compliance rate across 30 indicators (ranging from 13% for App...
The US AI Safety Institute (AISI), established November 2023 within NIST with $10M budget (FY2025 request $82.7M), conducted pre-deployment evaluat...
AI creates a "dual amplification" problem where the same systems that enable harmful actions also defeat attribution. False identity fraud rose 60%...
This page synthesizes post-FTX critiques of EA's epistemic and governance failures, identifying interlocking problems including donor hero-worship,...
Documents AI-enabled scientific fraud with evidence that 2-20% of submissions are from paper mills (field-dependent), 300,000+ fake papers exist, a...
AI training compute is growing at ~4-5× per year with algorithmic efficiency improving ~3× per year (halving effective compute cost every ~8 months...
Analyzes AI risk through the lens of which actors develop TAI, finding actor identity may account for 40-60% of total risk variance, with detailed ...
FAR AI is an AI safety research nonprofit founded in July 2022 by Adam Gleave (CEO) and Karl Berzins (Co-founder & President). Based in Berkeley, C...
Comprehensive analysis of the Eliciting Latent Knowledge problem with quantified research metrics: ARC's prize contest received 197 proposals, awar...
Comprehensive analysis of international AI coordination mechanisms shows growing but limited progress: 11-country AI Safety Institute network with ...
Comprehensive analysis of deepfake detection showing best commercial detectors achieve 78-87% in-the-wild accuracy vs 96%+ in controlled settings, ...
Identifies 35 high-leverage uncertainties in AI risk across compute (scaling breakdown at 10^26-10^30 FLOP), governance (10% P(US-China treaty by 2...
Comprehensive review of sparse autoencoders (SAEs) for mechanistic interpretability, covering Anthropic's 34M features from Claude 3 Sonnet (90% in...
Weak-to-strong generalization tests whether weak supervisors can elicit good behavior from stronger AI systems. OpenAI's ICML 2024 experiments show...
Comprehensive analysis of AI-driven agency erosion across domains: 42.3% of EU workers under algorithmic management (EWCS 2024), 70%+ of Americans ...
Quantitative analysis mapping 15+ AI safety interventions to specific risks reveals critical misallocation: 40% of 2024 funding ($400M+) flows to R...
Comprehensive analysis documenting AI-enabled authoritarian tools across surveillance (350M+ cameras in China analyzing 25.9M faces daily per distr...
This article argues that government capacity to implement AI policy is critically lagging behind AI development, creating an existential risk throu...
Comprehensive analysis of distributional shift showing 40-45% accuracy drops when models encounter novel distributions (ObjectNet vs ImageNet), wit...
The November 2022 collapse of FTX resulted in approximately $160M in committed EA grants that were not disbursed, organizational restructuring acro...
Comprehensive analysis showing reward hacking occurs in 1-2% of OpenAI o3 task attempts, with 43x higher rates when scoring functions are visible. ...
Comprehensive overview of the long-timelines worldview (20-40+ years to AGI, 5-20% P(doom)), arguing for foundational research over rushed solution...
A well-structured, comprehensive overview of AI compute supply chain actors across six tiers, identifying key governance chokepoints (ASML, TSMC, N...
Comprehensive empirical analysis finds US chip export controls provide 1-3 year delays on Chinese AI development but face severe enforcement gaps (...
Framework for prioritizing AI safety interventions by temporal urgency rather than impact alone, identifying four critical closing windows (2024-20...
Relative value framework comparing longtermist funding vehicles to a GiveWell reference. Key findings: (1) Coefficient Navigating TAI Fund is ~50x–...
Leading the Future represents a $125 million industry effort to prevent AI regulation through political spending, directly opposing AI safety advoc...
Technical architecture document analyzing the wiki's overlapping citation systems (remark-gfm footnotes, References component, CitationOverlay, Res...
Comprehensive survey of AI safety researcher disagreements on accident risks, quantifying probability ranges for mesa-optimization (15-55%), decept...
AI Control is a defensive safety approach that maintains control over potentially misaligned AI through monitoring, containment, and redundancy, of...
Comprehensive reference page on Anthropic's LTBT governance mechanism, covering legal structure, trustee composition, amendment processes, and crit...
Scheming—strategic AI deception during training—has transitioned from theoretical concern to observed behavior across all major frontier models (o1...
Comprehensive analysis of pause/moratorium proposals finding they would provide very high safety benefits if implemented (buying time for safety re...
Comprehensive overview of AI evaluation methods spanning dangerous capability assessment, safety properties, and deception detection, with categori...