Accelerate or Slow Down? Curated works on AI Safety
Curated essays on arguably the most consequential debate in human history.
What will it take to keep increasingly capable AI aligned with human interests? Explore the essays, research, and debates shaping our understanding of AI risk from failures in today’s systems to the challenge of retaining control over super intelligence.
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Archived foundational works in alignment research (pre-2020)

  • The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents

  • Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?

  • The Basic AI Drives

  • How Long Before Superintelligence?

  • Corrigibility

  • Concrete Problems in AI Safety


  • Accelerate!

  • Open Weights and American AI Leadership

  • Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far | The Ezra Klein Show

  • Andrew Ng: Slowing AI progress is a mistake; today's safety concerns are an effective PR campaign

  • Andrew Ng: 6-month moratorium on AI progress is a terrible idea.

  • The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents


  • Slow Down!

  • A warning about ‘model welfare’

  • Can AI Stay Under Human Control? | CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman

  • We Must Pace the Frontier

  • Full interview: Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue


  • Catastrophic risk scenarios

  • What failure looks like

  • AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities