# Some research and project ideas for developing and refining the field of AI safety

> Source: <https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Tgj8N6Rh4HHBAAyav/some-research-and-project-ideas-for-developing-and-refining>
> Published: 2026-06-24 18:23:22+00:00

This small post is part of a series of posts I'm creating which outline my ideas for AI safety projects/research which I think could be high-impact. I have way more ideas than I could ever hope to do justice to, so if you're looking for inspiration, take a look!

**There should be a live, regularly-updated and highly visual database of AIS research questions and the progress on each of them***.* The nearest existing thing is the [EA Midwest list-of-lists](https://www.notion.so/eamidwest2026/List-of-lists-of-projects-ideas-in-AI-Safety-291f040b30f180a794c3f1f6b5264534); it could be far more. Could plausibly be made and maintained mostly with AI scraping and auto-categorisation. A database like this would allow people to easily see the state of research on a given subtopic, and where there is progress to be made. I suspect that the majority of updating could be automated.

**Similarly, there should be a live, regularly-updated and highly visual database of proposed interventions in AI safety, which tracks how many people are working on each intervention, and roughly how much time they're on each intervention***. *This would allow us to more quantitatively assess neglectedness.

**Which disciplines have had the least contact with AI safety, and what could they contribute?** See this Claude deep research artefact: [https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/55bde7d3-2216-43ea-83f0-9857e1e48750](https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/55bde7d3-2216-43ea-83f0-9857e1e48750)

**Are attractor basins from AI use a risk vector that curtails genuine innovation in AIS itself?** One candidate antidote: deliberately spending time in layers of reality that are far from AI (eg nature) in order to tap into sources of inspiration which lack these attractor basins.

**Given the high degree of disagreement among experts regarding which AI safety interventions are most promising, would it be helpful for intervention comparisons to factor in:**