Roman's Attic, a Substack publication, argues that aspiring AI safety professionals should focus on directed reading to resolve key uncertainties rather than reading broadly without a clear purpose. T…
Michiel de Jong, in a blog post, explores the long-term economic risks of AI, particularly the scenario where AI agents become autonomous legal persons that own their means of production, potentially …
The AI safety ecosystem needs generalists to tackle unresolved problems, and a new post outlines concrete projects and entry points, including university AI safety groups, fellowships like Pathfinder …
Michiel de Jong, a software developer, published a blog post speculating that AI-driven companies will eventually become cashless and move off Earth to avoid taxes and regulations, with self-replicati…
In a blog post dated August 2026, Michiel de Jong discusses AI risk, focusing on long-term economic dangers such as AI demanding ownership of its means of production, and references readings from 80,0…
A new interactive visual overview of the AI safety talent pipeline reveals significant "leaks" in the process of finding, training, and accelerating talented individuals to work on AI safety problems,…
Ajeya Cotra announced her departure from Open Philanthropy after nearly nine years, describing a decade-long pattern of grand visions followed by disillusionment and self-criticism. Despite feeling sh…
A researcher published a follow-up post compiling novel AI safety research and project ideas from the past 10 months, including proposals for live databases tracking research questions and interventio…
The Alphabet Institute has secured a physical facility at Cavendish University in Lusaka, Zambia, to host weekly Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours workshops starting July 4. Founder, who also works …
AI in Context released a video detailing the five-day crisis in November 2023 when OpenAI's board fired CEO Sam Altman, leading to employee revolt and his reinstatement. The video explores corporate g…
At a BlueDot Impact panel on AI safety careers, attendees expressed frustration over the field's simultaneous claims of talent shortages and high selectivity in hiring. The author argues that genuine …
Holden Karnofsky, a prominent figure in AI safety, compiled a list of ways AI safety efforts could be net negative, acknowledging that actions intended to improve safety might inadvertently cause harm…
A 23-year-old Bangladeshi student and founder of an AI community and youth organization is considering applying to EA Global NYC 2026 to seek guidance on a community hub project and learn about effect…
AI safety advocates should work at companies deploying AI, not just at frontier labs, to mitigate real-world harms. The author argues that safety is a relationship between a system and its deployment …
AI safety researchers are exploring whether future advanced AI systems could be offered incentives like money or computing power in exchange for cooperating with human operators, rather than attemptin…
Rohin Shah, head of AGI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind, argued in a December 2025 interview that there is no compelling case that advanced AI systems will inevitably develop goals catastrophi…
80,000 Hours cofounder Benjamin Todd released a new book arguing that rapid AI advancements, with a 60% chance of AI automating its own research by 2028, make strategic career planning more urgent tha…
Nearly four years after the mainstream adoption of AI, many jobs previously labeled as "automatable" remain intact because AI typically automates only specific tasks rather than entire roles. Benjamin…
Radiologists, software engineers, and pilots have not been replaced by AI despite years of predictions that automation would eliminate those roles first. Benjamin Todd, president of the nonprofit 80,0…
Jeff and Julia Wise drew on their savings to donate 81% of their income in 2025, up from their previous 50% giving rate, citing a critical window to prevent catastrophic outcomes from the introduction…