Recommended Resources

These are basic, introductory resources that don’t depend on having too much background knowledge.

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Answers to common questions

• AISafety.info answers questions like “how close to experts think we are to creating godlike AI?”, “why can’t we just do X to make AI safe?”, and “what can I do to contribute?”

Articles & posts

• A guide to why advanced AI could destroy the world by Kelsey Piper in Vox
• A gentle introduction to why AI *might* end the human race by Michael Tontchev 
• Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky in Time
• We must slow down the race to God-like AGI by Ian Hogarth in Financial Times

Books

• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
• The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell

Podcasts

• The AI Risk Podcast (AXRP) by Daniel Filan
• Future of Life Institute podcast 
• The Inside View by Michaël Trazzi
• Episodes from

• Machine Intelligence Research Center founder Eliezer Yudkowsky on Bankless, The Lunar Society, and Making Sense with Sam Harris (free transcript)
• ARC CEO Paul Christiano on Bankless and 80,000 Hours 
• Conjecture CEO Connor Leahy on Feedback Loop

Reading Lists/Courses/Series

• Global Challenges Project Library: Why Care About AI, AI Alignment, and AI Governance
• Robert Miles AI Safety Youtube Channel 
• AGI Safety Fundamentals

Advanced

• What Everyone in Technical Alignment is Doing and Why
• AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities and summary

• Research paper: The Alignment Problem from a Deep-learning Perspective by Richard Ngo et al. 
• Research paper: Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models by Sam Bowman
• Research forum: AI Alignment Forum

Try out the tech

• OpenAI Chat (a powerful chatbot)
• Bing Chat (a powerful chatbot, interacted with a search engine)
• Dream Studio (art generator)
• Midjourney Showcase (community showcase of generated art)
• Google’s MusicLM (generate music from text descriptions)
• ElevenLabs (clone voices from short audio samples)

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