{"slug": "join-our-ai-safety-x-philosophy-reading-group", "title": "Join Our AI Safety × Philosophy Reading Group", "summary": "An 8-week AI Safety × Philosophy reading group organized by Nous has received over 100 applications from professors, researchers, and students worldwide. The group will explore topics like consciousness, alignment, and metaethics through papers, talks, and discussions, with applications closing on July 15.", "body_md": "We believe that ensuring AI goes well does not only require technical skills. Every technical choice rests on philosophical assumptions that technical training does not prepare you to examine. If those assumptions are wrong, then technical excellence alone is not enough.\n\nBecause of this, we're putting together an 8-week reading group on AI Safety × Philosophy.\n\nWe'll explore topics like consciousness, agency, alignment, power, and metaethics, and others through a mix of philosophy papers, AI safety research, essays, book chapters, and YouTube videos. We'll also host guest talks by leading researchers and professors, as well as discussions and debates.\n\nWithin just a few days, we've had 100+ applications from people interested in participating or facilitating, including professors, postdocs, PhD students, researchers, engineers, and students from around the world.\n\nWe're still looking for both participants and facilitators.\n\nYou can read more about the reading group and apply here: [https://nous-ai-philosophy.notion.site/AI-Safety-Philosophy-Reading-Group-38bdd69661e980b68450e66c00652324](https://nous-ai-philosophy.notion.site/AI-Safety-Philosophy-Reading-Group-38bdd69661e980b68450e66c00652324)\n\nApplications close on **15 July, **so hurry up!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/join-our-ai-safety-x-philosophy-reading-group", "canonical_source": "https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9d2atwvZJbC4wJpfo/join-our-ai-safety-philosophy-reading-group", "published_at": "2026-07-06 12:03:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 01:43:49.928907+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-ethics", "ai-research", "large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Nous"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/join-our-ai-safety-x-philosophy-reading-group", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/join-our-ai-safety-x-philosophy-reading-group.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/join-our-ai-safety-x-philosophy-reading-group.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/join-our-ai-safety-x-philosophy-reading-group.jsonld"}}