Media channels

AI Alignment Forum (AF)

Hub for researchers to discuss ideas related to ensuring that transformative AI is aligned with human values.

LessWrong (LW)

Forum dedicated to improving human reasoning, containing a lot of AI safety content. AI Alignment Forum posts are cross-posted here so anyone, not just approved researchers, can engage.

Robert Miles AI Safety

The most popular AI safety education channel, explaining technical alignment concepts to general audiences through accessible explainer videos.

Rational Animations

Animated videos aiming to foster good thinking, promote altruistic causes, and help ensure humanity's future goes well – particularly regarding AI safety.

AISafety.com Reading Group

Fortnightly meetings beginning with a presentation summarizing a recent AI safety paper or article, followed by group discussion. The presentations are posted to YouTube.

AI In Context

Channel produced by 80,000 Hours presenting thoroughly researched, cinematic stories about what's happening in AI and where the trends are taking us.

Siliconversations

Entertaining stick figure explainers on (mostly) AI safety – covering alignment, corporate negligence, regulations, and societal impacts.

Future of Life Institute (FLI)

Explainer videos, expert interviews, and short films on existential risk from AI and other powerful technologies.

The 80,000 Hours Podcast

Interviews with people working on the world’s most pressing problems (especially AI safety), including advice on how you can use your career to help solve them.

AI X-risk Research Podcast (AXRP)

Interviews with technical AI safety researchers about their research, aiming to get a sense of why it was written and how it might reduce existential risk from AI.

AI Safety Events & Training

Weekly summaries of newly-announced events and training programs in the AI safety space – both online and in-person.

AI Safety Funding

Newsletter listing newly announced funding opportunities for individuals and organizations working to reduce AI existential risk.

AGI Safety Core

A followable list of accounts on Twitter/X belonging to AI thinkers and organizations that discuss AI safety.

AI Policy

A followable Twitter/X list of thoughtful people working on policy to reduce risks and secure benefits from AI.

Effective Altruism Forum (EA Forum)

Online hub for people dedicated to doing good in the world to share research, debate ideas, and develop strategies for addressing the world’s most pressing problems – including AI safety.

Deadly by Default

Primer on existential risk from AI on the Homo Sabiens blog. Lays out the case for concern from start to finish in language that a smart high-schooler could follow.

The Compendium

Living document aiming to present a coherent worldview explaining the race to AGI and extinction risks and what to do about them – in a way that is accessible to non-technical readers.

Astral Codex Ten (ACX)

Blog covering many topics, including AI, reasoning, science, psychiatry, and politics. Often features book summaries and commentary on AI safety.

Import AI

Weekly summaries of developments in AI research (including governance) written by Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic.

AI Safety Newsletter

Newsletter from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) published every few weeks, discussing developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.

Transformer

Aims to help decision-makers understand what’s happening in AI and why it matters – through news roundups, explainers, features, and opinion pieces.

ChinAI

The people with the most insight on AI development in China may well be Chinese people themselves. Jeff Ding provides weekly translations of their writings.

AI StopWatch

Newsroom experiment by comms analysts and writers at MIRI, posting daily updates and commentary on AI news.

The EU AI Act Newsletter

Fortnightly newsletter by the Future of Life Institute (FLI) summarizing and analyzing the latest developments surrounding the EU AI Act.

AI Policy Daily

Weekday email brief on AI policy, covering Congress, the White House, agencies, frontier capabilities, and China. Run by the AI Policy Institute (AIPI).

The AI Evaluation Substack

A monthly digest of the latest developments, research trends, and key initiatives in the realm of AI evaluation.

ML Safety Newsletter

Bimonthly-ish newsletter providing a roundup of the most important research developments in ML safety. Co-written by Dan Hendrycks.

AI Safety in China

Newsletter from Concordia AI, a Beijing-based social enterprise, providing updates on AI safety developments in China.

Can We Secure AI With Formal Methods?

Newsletter for keeping up to date with FMxAI (formal methods and AI) with a gear toward safety, doing a mix of shallow technical reviews of papers and movement updates.

AI Safety at the Frontier

Johannes Gasteiger, an alignment researcher at Anthropic, selects and summarizes the most interesting AI safety papers each month.

Cold Takes

Now-dormant blog by Holden Karnofsky about AI and other things. Includes the "most important century" series, which argues that the 21st century could be the most important ever for humanity.

Bounded Regret

Blog on AI safety by Jacob Steinhardt, a UC Berkeley statistics professor, analyzing risks, forecasting future breakthroughs, and discussing alignment strategies.

The AI Revolution

Pair of articles by Tim Urban on the website Wait But Why using accessible explanations and illustrations to explore AI’s evolution toward superintelligence and its existential risks for humanity.

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies – Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares (2025)

Grounded, no-nonsense primer on why building artificial superintelligence using current techniques will predictably lead to human extinction.

Superintelligence – Nick Bostrom (2014)

Explores how superintelligence could be created and what it might be like, arguing that it would be difficult to control and could take over the world in order to accomplish its goals.

Uncontrollable – Darren McKee (2023)

Layman’s introduction to AI existential risk, covering how powerful AI systems might become, why superhuman AI might be dangerous, and what we can do about it.

The AI Does Not Hate You / The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy – Tom Chivers (2019)

Entertaining and accessible outline of the core ideas around AI existential risk, along with an exploration of the community and culture of AI safety researchers.

The Precipice – Toby Ord (2020)

Argues that humanity's future is imperiled by modern existential threats – including from AI – and that coordinated global action is essential to ensure our survival.

Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark (2017)

Explores how advanced AI could fundamentally reshape human civilisation and argues that we must carefully guide its development.

AI – Roman Yampolskiy (2024)

Argues that since advanced AI is intrinsically unexplainable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable, we currently lack any means to guarantee its alignment – making it a profound risk for civilization.

Human Compatible – Stuart Russell (2019)

Explains the problem of making powerful AI compatible with humans. The book discusses potential solutions, with an emphasis on the approaches of the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI).

The Alignment Problem – Brian Christian (2020)

Comprehensive overview of the challenges that come with attempting to align AI systems, from the perspective of a machine learning researcher.

Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics and Society – Dan Hendrycks (2024)

Accessible textbook exploring AI safety risks, machine ethics, and governance frameworks. Written by the director of Center for AI Safety (CAIS).

Chip War – Chris Miller (2022)

An account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource – microchip technology – with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.

Doom Debates

Channel hosted by Liron Shapira featuring in-depth debates, explainers, and live Q&A sessions, focused on AI existential risk and other implications of superintelligence.

AI Explained

YouTuber discussing the latest AI developments as they happen, offering explanations and analysis of important research and events.

The Inside View

Interviews with AI safety researchers, explainers, fictional stories of concrete threat models, and paper walk-throughs.

Dr Waku

Computer science PhD and AI research scientist talking about how AI will likely affect all of us and society as a whole, plus interviews with experts.

FAR․AI

FAR.AI's channel posts talks given by AI safety experts at various events, covering topics ranging from mechanistic interpretability to evals and governance.

The AI Risk Network (ARN)

YouTube channel run by John Sherman, a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning former investigative journalist, aiming to make AI risk a kitchen table conversation.

Species

Channel run by Drew Spartz educating a general audience about AI risk through high-effort mini-documentaries.

Lethal Intelligence

YouTube channel raising awareness about the lethal dangers of AGI through explainer videos and podcasts.

The Power Law

Top forecaster Peter Wildeford forecasts the future and discusses AI, national security, innovation, emerging technology, and the powers – real and metaphorical – that shape the world.

AI Futures Project

Blog from AI Futures Project (AIFP), which created 'AI 2027'. Many posts explain the thinking behind how they model the AI future, while others include advocacy.

ChinaTalk

Deep coverage of technology, China, and US policy, featuring original analysis alongside interviews with thinkers and policymakers. Also has a podcast.

AI Frontiers

Platform from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) posting articles written by experts from a wide range of fields discussing the impacts of AI.

Daniel Paleka's Newsletter

Blog by AI safety researcher Daniel Paleka curating and succinctly analyzing recent research and news in AI safety.

Planned Obsolescence

Substack by Ajeya Cotra, researcher at METR, covering AI capabilities forecasting, AI agent benchmarks, timelines for automating AI R&D, and implications for AI safety.

Miles's Substack

Blog from independent AI policy researcher Miles Brundage on the rapid evolution of AI and the urgent need for thoughtful governance.

AI Policy Bulletin

Publishes policy-relevant perspectives on frontier AI governance, including research summaries, opinions, interviews, and explainers.

Obsolete

Publication by freelance journalist Garrison Lovely about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and AI. Posts sporadically.

Sarah's Substack

Blog by Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse (ex-UK AISI) covering things like timelines, lab safety plans, community critiques, and personal reflections on living under the prospect of transformative AI.

Joe Carlsmith's Substack

Long-form philosophical essays on alignment, AI moral status, and civilisational epistemics around AGI. Posts about monthly.

Threading the Needle

Approximately fortnightly blog by Anton Leicht about charting a course through the politics of rapid AI progress.

AI Prospects

Blog by Eric Drexler on AI prospects and their surprising implications for technology, economics, environmental concerns, and military affairs.

Rising Tide

Blog by Helen Toner (director of CSET and former OpenAI board member) offering analysis on navigating the transition to advanced AI systems.

Forecasting AI Futures

Forecasting blog for AI safety relevant predictions, written by Alvin Ånestrand. Explores potential scenarios and makes predictions to inform strategies for reducing AI risks.

Dwarkesh Podcast

Well-researched interviews with influential intellectuals discussing AI, technology, and their broader societal implications. Hosted by Dwarkesh Patel.

Future of Life Institute (FLI) Podcast

In-depth interviews with existential risk researchers, policy experts, philosophers, and a range of other influential thinkers.

AE Alignment Podcast

Conversations with researchers and leaders in alignment at AE Studio and beyond. Hosted by James Bowler.

The Cognitive Revolution

Weekly podcast where host Nathan Labenz interviews people involved with building AI, exploring the transformative impact AI will likely have in the near future.

The AI Policy Podcast

Podcast from the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) discussing AI regulation, innovation, national security, and geopolitics.

LessWrong podcast

Audio narrations of top LessWrong posts, covering all curated posts and posts with at least 125 karma.

EA Forum podcast

Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, covering all curated posts and posts with at least 125 karma.

Existential risk from artificial intelligence

Wikipedia article providing a broad overview of the idea that advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity.

The Problem

Article explaining why MIRI believes that if researchers build superintelligent AI with anything like the field’s current technical understanding or methods, the expected outcome is human extinction.

AI Safety for Fleshy Humans (aisafety.dance)

Accessible, comic-illustrated series describing the history of AI capabilities, the alignment problem, and potential solutions.

AI 2027

Forecast article predicting that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution.

Loss of control

Regularly-updated article from 80,000 Hours with motivation and advice around pursuing a career in AI safety.