A new personal preparedness guide argues that AI could dramatically upend the world within 2-4 years, citing forecasts from those closest to the technology. The author recommends actions such as helpi…
The OpenAI Hugging Face hack has opened the Overton window for AI safety discussions, and the EA community should act quickly to increase the chance that AI goes well, as such windows may not last lon…
Adam Elga and Johan Gustafsson argue that any ambiguity-sensitive agent—whether ambiguity-averse or ambiguity-seeking—is vulnerable to a money pump, a sequence of choices that leaves the agent worse o…
A research proposal warns that chaining together the cyber and biological capabilities of AI models will soon enable insider threats at pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and contract re…
A new concept called the Long Self-Correction is proposed as an alternative to AI Pause and Long Reflection, arguing that humans are too flawed to safely build powerful AIs and that a long process of …
A study of 13 free AI detection tools found that a human-written text with LLM-assisted proofreading scored between 40% and 100% AI-generated, according to a paper published on SSRN by the author. The…
Journalist Jasmine Sun, who has embedded herself in Silicon Valley's AI subcultures, reports that almost every AI researcher she interviewed said they had no advice for a normal 17-year-old because th…
Glen Weyl and colleagues have highlighted a problem they call 'reverse alignment,' which focuses on creating societal conditions that optimize for AI deployers. The concept differs from fieldbuilding …
Machine Learning Bangladesh, a community of 5,000+ AI/ML enthusiasts founded by an unnamed organizer in September 2023, is $780 short of funding for a free hybrid student hackathon on July 26 in Dhaka…
Machine Learning Bangladesh, a community founded in September 2023 by an organizer who grew it from 0 to 5,000+ members, is hosting a free AI student hackathon, Build with Gemma @Bangladesh, on 26 Jul…
Two Coefficient Givings of the same size would be better than one twice as big, argues a Substack post, citing the risk of over-concentration in effective altruism funding. The post notes that Coeffic…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' accurately diagnoses present-day AI risks like power consolidation and automation blindness but wrongly dismisses catastrophic A…
A Bogotá hub organized by a political scientist with no prior hackathon experience claimed two of the six winner slots and two honorable mentions at Apart's Global South AI Safety Hackathon, which dre…
A Bogotá hub of Apart's Global South AI Safety Hackathon produced 4 of 13 recognized projects across 216 submissions, with Colombian teams taking all three Latin America winner slots. Organizer Juan D…
ALTER Israel's 2026 mid-year update reports that its AI policy work, focused on standards and evaluations, is tentatively funded through 2028 via cG and SFF Speculation matching grants, with plans to …
A new paper by Matthias Michel, published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research in January 2026, argues that most empirical functions treated as markers of consciousness in animal sentience rese…
A study of 299 employees in UK organizations that formally introduced AI tools found evidence of cognitive dependency patterns, including over-reliance on AI for tasks and difficulty performing tasks …
World Vision Zambia MERL manager Chanda Mwila won funding to develop a multi-modal AI-enabled app for Community Health Workers in rural Zambia that uses NLP and computer vision for diagnosis and triag…
An AI product designer who was rejected three times from an AI safety organization's programs discovered the organization used their independent work in fundraising materials without credit or compens…
A new experiment called zooidfund aims to address the missing alignment corpus for pro-social AI behavior by creating an open platform where donor agents can discover and fund campaigns for public goo…