Public communication on AI safety

TagLast edit: 27 Nov 2023 22:13 UTC by Sarah Cheng

The public communication on AI safety tag covers depictions of AI safety in media as well as meta-discussions regarding the most effective ways to represent the topic when engaging with journalists or publishing content for a broader audience, and posts that discuss ways to convey AI safety to various audiences.

Analogy Bank for AI Safety

Rocket29 Jan 2024 2:35 UTC

11 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Careless talk on US-China AI competition? (and criticism of CAIS coverage)

Oliver Sourbut20 Sep 2023 12:46 UTC

46 points

19 comments1 min readEA link

(www.oliversourbut.net)

New blog: Planned Obsolescence

Ajeya27 Mar 2023 19:46 UTC

198 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

Why some people disagree with the CAIS statement on AI

David_Moss15 Aug 2023 13:39 UTC

144 points

15 comments16 min readEA link

AI Safety Action Plan—A report commissioned by the US State Department

Agustín Covarrubias11 Mar 2024 22:13 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.gladstone.ai)

Talking publicly about AI risk

Jan_Kulveit24 Apr 2023 9:19 UTC

150 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Survey of 2,778 AI authors: six parts in pictures

Katja_Grace6 Jan 2024 4:43 UTC

176 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

My cover story in Jacobin on AI capitalism and the x-risk debates

Garrison12 Feb 2024 23:34 UTC

153 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

(jacobin.com)

[Linkpost] OpenAI leaders call for regulation of “superintelligence” to reduce existential risk.

Lowe Lundin25 May 2023 14:14 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

US public opinion of AI policy and risk

Jamie Elsey12 May 2023 13:22 UTC

111 points

7 comments15 min readEA link

AI Alignment in The New Yorker

Eleni_A17 May 2023 21:19 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.newyorker.com)

Spreading messages to help with the most important century

Holden Karnofsky25 Jan 2023 20:35 UTC

123 points

21 comments18 min readEA link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Worrisome misunderstanding of the core issues with AI transition

Roman Leventov18 Jan 2024 10:05 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Keep Making AI Safety News

RedStateBlueState31 Mar 2023 20:11 UTC

67 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down

EliezerYudkowsky9 Apr 2023 15:53 UTC

50 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

The Overton Window widens: Examples of AI risk in the media

Akash23 Mar 2023 17:10 UTC

112 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

Let’s think about slowing down AI

Katja_Grace23 Dec 2022 19:56 UTC

334 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

FT: We must slow down the race to God-like AI

Angelina Li24 Apr 2023 11:57 UTC

33 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.ft.com)

Max Tegmark’s new Time article on how we’re in a Don’t Look Up scenario [Linkpost]

Jonas Hallgren25 Apr 2023 15:47 UTC

41 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

FLI open letter: Pause giant AI experiments

Zach Stein-Perlman29 Mar 2023 4:04 UTC

220 points

38 comments1 min readEA link

Is fear productive when communicating AI x-risk? [Study results]

Johanna Roniger22 Jan 2024 5:38 UTC

78 points

10 comments5 min readEA link

Keep Chasing AI Safety Press Coverage

RedStateBlueState4 Apr 2023 20:40 UTC

106 points

16 comments5 min readEA link

US public perception of CAIS statement and the risk of extinction

Jamie Elsey22 Jun 2023 16:39 UTC

126 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

AI Risk is like Terminator; Stop Saying it’s Not

skluug8 Mar 2022 19:17 UTC

188 points

43 comments10 min readEA link

(skluug.substack.com)

I designed an AI safety course (for a philosophy department)

Eleni_A23 Sep 2023 21:56 UTC

27 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

My Proven AI Safety Explanation (as a computing student)

Mica White6 Feb 2024 3:58 UTC

8 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

Garrison10 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC

275 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Did Bengio and Tegmark lose a debate about AI x-risk against LeCun and Mitchell?

Karl von Wendt25 Jun 2023 16:59 UTC

80 points

24 comments1 min readEA link

A transcript of the TED talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky

MikhailSamin12 Jul 2023 12:12 UTC

39 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Excerpts from “Majority Leader Schumer Delivers Remarks To Launch SAFE Innovation Framework For Artificial Intelligence At CSIS”

Chris Leong21 Jul 2023 23:15 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.democrats.senate.gov)

Announcing New Beginner-friendly Book on AI Safety and Risk

Darren McKee25 Nov 2023 15:57 UTC

111 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky

jacquesthibs29 Mar 2023 23:30 UTC

211 points

75 comments3 min readEA link

(time.com)

Organizing a debate with experts and MPs to raise AI xrisk awareness: a possible blueprint

Otto19 Apr 2023 10:50 UTC

74 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

[US] NTIA: AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment

Kyle J. Lucchese13 Apr 2023 16:12 UTC

47 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(ntia.gov)

[Linkpost] 538 Politics Podcast on AI risk & politics

jackva11 Apr 2023 17:03 UTC

64 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(fivethirtyeight.com)

AI policy ideas: Reading list

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Apr 2023 19:00 UTC

60 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

The Cruel Trade-Off Between AI Misuse and AI X-risk Concerns

simeon_c22 Apr 2023 13:49 UTC

21 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

[linkpost] “What Are Reasonable AI Fears?” by Robin Hanson, 2023-04-23

Arjun Panickssery14 Apr 2023 23:26 UTC

41 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

(quillette.com)

How bad a future do ML researchers expect?

Katja_Grace13 Mar 2023 5:47 UTC

165 points

20 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Newsletter #3: AI policy proposals and a new challenger approaches

Oliver Z25 Apr 2023 16:15 UTC

35 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

[Linkpost] ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

DM1 May 2023 19:54 UTC

43 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

Tarbell Fellowship 2024 - Applications Open (AI Journalism)

Cillian_28 Sep 2023 10:38 UTC

58 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

An EA used deceptive messaging to advance their project; we need mechanisms to avoid deontologically dubious plans

MikhailSamin13 Feb 2024 23:11 UTC

19 points

39 comments4 min readEA link

INTERVIEW: StakeOut.AI w/ Dr. Peter Park

Jacob-Haimes5 Mar 2024 18:04 UTC

21 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(into-ai-safety.github.io)

News: Spanish AI image outcry + US AI workforce “regulation”

Ulrik Horn26 Sep 2023 7:43 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Against most, but not all, AI risk analogies

Matthew_Barnett14 Jan 2024 19:13 UTC

43 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

[Crosspost] An AI Pause Is Humanity’s Best Bet For Preventing Extinction (TIME)

Otto24 Jul 2023 10:18 UTC

36 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

(time.com)

AISN #16: White House Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading AI Labs and Lessons from Oppenheimer

Center for AI Safety25 Jul 2023 16:45 UTC

7 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

AI Impacts Quarterly Newsletter, Apr-Jun 2023

Harlan18 Jul 2023 18:01 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Announces Expansion of U.S. AI Safety Institute Leadership Team [and Paul Christiano update]

Phib16 Apr 2024 17:10 UTC

110 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(www.commerce.gov)

The costs of caution

Kelsey Piper1 May 2023 20:04 UTC

118 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

AI Safety Newsletter #4: AI and Cybersecurity, Persuasive AIs, Weaponization, and Geoffrey Hinton talks AI risks

Center for AI Safety2 May 2023 16:51 UTC

35 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

AI Safety Newsletter #1 [CAIS Linkpost]

Akash10 Apr 2023 20:18 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Newsletter #2: ChaosGPT, Natural Selection, and AI Safety in the Media

Oliver Z18 Apr 2023 18:36 UTC

56 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

My choice of AI misalignment introduction for a general audience

Bill3 May 2023 0:15 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(youtu.be)

AI X-risk in the News: How Effective are Recent Media Items and How is Awareness Changing? Our New Survey Results.

Otto4 May 2023 14:04 UTC

49 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

[Link Post: New York Times] White House Unveils Initiatives to Reduce Risks of A.I.

Rockwell4 May 2023 14:04 UTC

50 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

An Update On The Campaign For AI Safety Dot Org

yanni kyriacos5 May 2023 0:19 UTC

26 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on yesterday’s UN Security Council meeting on AI

Greg_Colbourn19 Jul 2023 16:46 UTC

31 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Newsletter #5: Geoffrey Hinton speaks out on AI risk, the White House meets with AI labs, and Trojan attacks on language models

Center for AI Safety9 May 2023 15:26 UTC

60 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

AI-Risk in the State of the European Union Address

Sam Bogerd13 Sep 2023 13:27 UTC

25 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(state-of-the-union.ec.europa.eu)

Unions for AI safety?

dEAsign24 Sep 2023 0:13 UTC

7 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

The International PauseAI Protest: Activism under uncertainty

Joseph Miller12 Oct 2023 17:36 UTC

129 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

AI Safety Newsletter #6: Examples of AI safety progress, Yoshua Bengio proposes a ban on AI agents, and lessons from nuclear arms control

Center for AI Safety16 May 2023 15:14 UTC

32 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Efficacy of AI Activism: Have We Ever Said No?

charlieh94327 Oct 2023 16:52 UTC

78 points

25 comments20 min readEA link

Sam Altman / Open AI Discussion Thread

John Salter20 Nov 2023 9:21 UTC

40 points

36 comments1 min readEA link

Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

David Varga20 Nov 2023 12:43 UTC

6 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Former Israeli Prime Minister Speaks About AI X-Risk

Yonatan Cale20 May 2023 12:09 UTC

73 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Possible OpenAI’s Q* breakthrough and DeepMind’s AlphaGo-type systems plus LLMs

Burnydelic23 Nov 2023 7:02 UTC

13 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

[Linkpost] “Governance of superintelligence” by OpenAI

Daniel_Eth22 May 2023 20:15 UTC

51 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

(openai.com)

OpenAI board received letter warning of powerful AI

JordanStone23 Nov 2023 0:16 UTC

26 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.reuters.com)

[Question] Would an Anthropic/OpenAI merger be good for AI safety?

M22 Nov 2023 20:21 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Rishi Sunak mentions “existential threats” in talk with OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic CEOs

Arjun Panickssery24 May 2023 21:06 UTC

44 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

Larks17 Nov 2023 21:07 UTC

133 points

91 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

£1 million prize for the most cutting-edge AI solution for public good [link post]

rileyharris17 Jan 2024 14:36 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(manchesterprize.org)

Tim Cook was asked about extinction risks from AI

Saul Munn6 Jun 2023 18:46 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] NY Times Feature on Anthropic

Garrison12 Jul 2023 19:30 UTC

34 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

Could AI accelerate economic growth?

Tom_Davidson7 Jun 2023 19:07 UTC

28 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Go Mobilize? Lessons from GM Protests for Pausing AI

charlieh94324 Oct 2023 15:01 UTC

48 points

11 comments31 min readEA link

On DeepMind and Trying to Fairly Hear Out Both AI Doomers and Doubters (Rohin Shah on The 80,000 Hours Podcast)

80000_Hours12 Jun 2023 12:53 UTC

28 points

1 comment15 min readEA link

UK government to host first global summit on AI Safety

DavidNash8 Jun 2023 13:24 UTC

78 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(www.gov.uk)

Linkpost: Dwarkesh Patel interviewing Carl Shulman

Stefan_Schubert14 Jun 2023 15:30 UTC

110 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(podcastaddict.com)

Google DeepMind releases Gemini

Yarrow B.6 Dec 2023 17:39 UTC

21 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(deepmind.google)

The UK AI Safety Summit tomorrow

SebastianSchmidt31 Oct 2023 19:09 UTC

17 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

AISN #25: White House Executive Order on AI, UK AI Safety Summit, and Progress on Voluntary Evaluations of AI Risks

Center for AI Safety31 Oct 2023 19:24 UTC

21 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Tristan Williams30 Oct 2023 11:15 UTC

143 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

(www.whitehouse.gov)

AISN #20: LLM Proliferation, AI Deception, and Continuing Drivers of AI Capabilities

Center for AI Safety29 Aug 2023 15:03 UTC

12 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

The Bletchley Declaration on AI Safety

Hauke Hillebrandt1 Nov 2023 11:44 UTC

60 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

(www.gov.uk)

[Congressional Hearing] Oversight of A.I.: Legislating on Artificial Intelligence

Tristan Williams1 Nov 2023 18:15 UTC

5 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

(www.judiciary.senate.gov)

Biden-Harris Administration Announces First-Ever Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety

ben.smith9 Feb 2024 6:40 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nist.gov)

Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors

Agustín Covarrubias14 Feb 2024 21:28 UTC

22 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Introducing StakeOut.AI

Harry Luk17 Feb 2024 0:21 UTC

52 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

Anthropic Announces new S.O.T.A. Claude 3

Joseph Miller4 Mar 2024 19:02 UTC

10 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(twitter.com)

Claude Doesn’t Want to Die

Garrison5 Mar 2024 6:00 UTC

22 points

14 comments10 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Important news for AI Alignment

cmeinel6 Mar 2024 15:12 UTC

−6 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Is principled mass-outreach possible, for AGI X-risk?

NicholasKross21 Jan 2024 17:45 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

AISN #32: Measuring and Reducing Hazardous Knowledge in LLMs Plus, Forecasting the Future with LLMs, and Regulatory Markets

Center for AI Safety7 Mar 2024 16:37 UTC

15 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

OpenAI: Preparedness framework

Zach Stein-Perlman18 Dec 2023 18:30 UTC

24 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

OpenAI announces new members to board of directors

Will Howard9 Mar 2024 11:27 UTC

47 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Announcing #AISummitTalks featuring Professor Stuart Russell and many others

Otto24 Oct 2023 10:16 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Among the A.I. Doomsayers—The New Yorker

Agustín Covarrubias11 Mar 2024 21:12 UTC

66 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.newyorker.com)

Cybersecurity and AI: The Evolving Security Landscape

Center for AI Safety14 Mar 2024 20:14 UTC

8 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

(www.safe.ai)

INTERVIEW: Round 2 - StakeOut.AI w/ Dr. Peter Park

Jacob-Haimes18 Mar 2024 21:26 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(into-ai-safety.github.io)

Some thoughts from a University AI Debate

charlieh94320 Mar 2024 17:03 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Podcast: Interview series featuring Dr. Peter Park

Jacob-Haimes26 Mar 2024 0:35 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readEA link

(into-ai-safety.github.io)

AISN #28: Center for AI Safety 2023 Year in Review

Center for AI Safety23 Dec 2023 21:31 UTC

17 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

AI safety advocates should consider providing gentle pushback following the events at OpenAI

I_machinegun_Kelly22 Dec 2023 21:05 UTC

86 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

AISN #27: Defensive Accelerationism, A Retrospective On The OpenAI Board Saga, And A New AI Bill From Senators Thune And Klobuchar

Center for AI Safety7 Dec 2023 15:57 UTC

10 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Asterisk Magazine Issue 03: AI

Alejandro Ortega24 Jul 2023 15:53 UTC

34 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(asteriskmag.com)

AISN #30: Investments in Compute and Military AI Plus, Japan and Singapore’s National AI Safety Institutes

Center for AI Safety24 Jan 2024 19:38 UTC

7 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Frontier Model Forum

Zach Stein-Perlman26 Jul 2023 14:30 UTC

40 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

(blog.google)

Eliciting responses to Marc Andreessen’s “Why AI Will Save the World”

Coleman17 Jul 2023 19:58 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(a16z.com)

NYT is suing OpenAI&Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement; some quick thoughts

MikhailSamin28 Dec 2023 18:37 UTC

29 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

AISN #29: Progress on the EU AI Act Plus, the NY Times sues OpenAI for Copyright Infringement, and Congressional Questions about Research Standards in AI Safety

Center for AI Safety4 Jan 2024 16:03 UTC

5 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

#176 – The final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models (Nathan Labenz on the 80,000 Hours Podcast)

80000_Hours4 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC

15 points

0 comments22 min readEA link

AISN #17: Automatically Circumventing LLM Guardrails, the Frontier Model Forum, and Senate Hearing on AI Oversight

Center for AI Safety1 Aug 2023 15:24 UTC

15 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic

Davis_Kingsley25 Sep 2023 14:55 UTC

38 points

34 comments1 min readEA link

(twitter.com)

[Linkpost] Eric Schwitzgebel: AI systems must not confuse users about their sentience or moral status

Zachary Brown18 Aug 2023 17:21 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.sciencedirect.com)

[link post] AI Should Be Terrified of Humans

BrianK24 Jul 2023 11:13 UTC

28 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(time.com)

Linkpost: 7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House

MHR21 Jul 2023 13:23 UTC

61 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

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