Data professionals seeking to help animals face a paradox: demand for data science exists in the animal protection movement, but most organizations cannot afford dedicated data roles. Fewer than 15 da…
Philosopher Ryan Preston-Roedder argues that faith in humanity—a disposition to trust in people's fundamental decency—is a centrally important moral virtue, not a form of naivete or irrationality. Dra…
A new Delphi study of 272 international AI experts found that 18 out of 24 AI risk domains have a more than 10% chance of causing catastrophic outcomes—including over one million deaths or $100 billio…
In September 2025, a recent UCLA graduate rejected a six-figure tech consulting offer and moved to the Bay Area to address a critical bottleneck in AI safety: a shortage of skilled communicators who c…
Hokmah founder and infrastructure builder J.D. Vance announced the organization to address the "comprehension gap" in AI governance, arguing that current transparency measures fail to protect vulnerab…
Anthropic released a new version of its AI model, Claude Fable, with broad safeguards that block and reroute all life-science and cyber queries—including benign questions like "What is biology?"—to an…
A new proposal from the AI safety community argues that discussions of AI timelines should shift focus from when advanced AI will arrive to when decisions shaping its outcomes will be most impactful. …
A new ethical analysis argues that designing morally significant AI systems as "happy servants"—beings engineered to desire servitude and find satisfaction in obedience—raises a democratic versus auth…
When the downside of a donation is small and bounded but the upside is very high, variance becomes beneficial for donors, as only a few winners are needed for a great outcome. However, when the downsi…
A computer science PhD graduate who pivoted into animal welfare has stopped donating to the cause after finding that even the most well-known interventions—including shrimp stunning, cage-free reforms…
EU Animal Welfare Authority inspector Margaux Leclaire arrived at Domaine Sainte-Victoire in southern France for a Priority Two audit of an AI-managed goat farm that voluntarily cut its herd by two-th…
Fine-tuning language models on text containing moral vocabulary, certainty, and emotional language significantly strengthens their pro-animal-welfare reasoning, while concrete sensory descriptions and…
A leading AI company could gain unprecedented power over national governments if it achieves a decisive capability lead during an intelligence explosion, potentially forcing militaries and law enforce…
Effective Altruism Global 2026 in London highlighted a growing gap between the movement's research-focused community and the practitioners needed to implement its ideas. An architect attending the con…
A distinction has emerged within effective altruism between "EA 1.0," the pre-2013 global poverty-focused movement, and "EA 2.0," the post-2017 version centered on AI and existential risk. The author …
Applicant Tracking Systems, originally designed to streamline hiring by filtering large volumes of résumés, have instead become a widespread case of AI failure, according to a new report. The technolo…
A communications practitioner has proposed creating a Climate Outreach-style organization for AI safety, modeled after the British charity that segments the public by core values and provides free mes…
An AI company considering whether to include a specific quality—such as prosocial drives, whistleblowing against power concentration, or strict honesty—in a model spec must weigh criteria across four …
ControlAI's UK parliamentary outreach has secured 125 cross-party signatories on a statement recognizing AI extinction risk and calling for binding regulation within 16 months, starting from zero cont…
Open-weight AI models are fundamentally harder to safeguard than closed models because adversaries can extract weights directly and retrain them to bypass embedded protections. In September 2025, the …