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AI Safety & Ethics (834)

Research, policy, and reporting on AI risk, accountability, privacy, and regulation.

• American Job Centers (WIOA Core Programs)

  Free job search assistance, skills assessments, and referrals to funded training for unemployed and underemployed workers, delivered locally under federal WIOA law.

  Government Program

• DAIR Institute

  Independent, community-rooted AI research institute founded by Timnit Gebru, studying the real harms of AI instead of the hype.

  Organization

• Developing AI Applications with Python and Flask

  A hands-on Coursera project course from IBM that walks through building and deploying a simple AI web application with Python and Flask, including REST API integration and packaging for production.

  Training Program

• freeCodeCamp Curriculum

  Free, self-paced certifications in web development, data analysis, machine learning, and more, with hands-on projects.

  Course

• GatherVerse Women's AI Summit 2026

  The GatherVerse Women's AI Summit 2026 is a free virtual global gathering of women building the future of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, running September 15-17 and September 22-23, 2026, starting 8:00 AM PT each day. Sessions span technology, healthcare, education, business and community work, with a humanity-first focus on experiences, opportunities and what comes next at the intersection of AI and people.

  Webinar

• Haben Girma

  Disability Rights Lawyer, Author. The first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School; author of 'Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law' and a leading voice on accessible technology and inclusive design.

  Person to Follow

• Harvard Program on Negotiation Resource Library

  A free resource library from Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation, with articles and guides on negotiation strategy, conflict resolution, and dealmaking.

  Website

• How My Neurodivergent Brain Works

  A first-person account of how one professional's neurodivergent brain works day to day, and what support and communication actually help at work.

  Article

• Humanly Blog

  Blog on recruiting automation, candidate screening, and conversational AI in hiring, from a recruiting-technology company.

  Blog

• Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamp — for students

  A free twenty-hour introduction to artificial intelligence for high school students, no coding experience required, taught through hands-on projects in areas students already care about.

  Training Program

• Partnership on AI — resource library

  Partnership on AI's open library of guidance, frameworks, and case studies on responsible AI: synthetic media, labor and the economy, AI safety, fairness, and inclusive AI development.

  Website

• Python Essentials for MLOps

  A Duke Coursera course covering the Python tooling MLOps roles rely on — virtual environments, package management, linting, testing, and deploying models as reproducible pipelines.

  Training Program

• Ruha Benjamin

  Princeton scholar on race, technology, and justice, author of Race After Technology.

  Author

• Tech Jobs for Good

  Job board for social impact technology roles at nonprofits, government, and mission-driven companies.

  Job Board

• Tech Policy Press — Technology and Democracy

  Nonprofit publication covering the intersection of technology, platforms, and democratic institutions.

  Publisher

• 'Charming and disarming': How Meta's Muse Harnesses the Power of Cuteness

  The Guardian on Meta's new Muse assistant, a cute "little guy" that answers emails, books travel and does your food shop — and why its design leans on cuteness.

  article

• 'Eugenics on steroids': the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute

  Article (republished on The Free Library) on the history and criticism of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, the research center tied to longtermism and existential-risk work, which closed in 2024. The page blocked an automated check, so this description is based on the title.

  Article

• "Eliezer, the person" (archived 2000 personal page)

  An Internet Archive copy of Eliezer Yudkowsky's autobiographical page from his sysopmind.com site, describing himself as of August 2000, when he had become a research fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (now MIRI). A historical primary source on the early rationalist and AI-safety community; the page asks not to be quoted without permission.

  Document

• "Enshittification" Isn't Real

  An a16z essay arguing that platform decline is better explained by platform incentives and narcissism than by the popular "enshittification" framing.

  Article

• $25 Million and a Video Call: What the Arup Deepfake Scam Changed

  Axlio Consulting article on the deepfake video-call fraud that cost engineering firm Arup $25 million, and the compliance changes that followed.

  Article

• 2025 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study

  Annual global study on cybersecurity hiring, skills gaps, budget pressure, and what helps practitioners grow their careers.

  Article

• 2026 AI Agents Best Practices (Datadog ebook)

  Free ebook on building, monitoring, and troubleshooting AI agents in production: what to instrument, where agents fail, and the practices teams use to keep them reliable.

  Document

• 2026 AI for Humanity Report

  Fast Forward's 2026 report on how tech nonprofits are using AI to serve people and communities.

  Report

• 2026 Public AI Summit for Educators

  A free, two-day virtual summit on AI in education. Designed for educators at community colleges, public schools and other broad-access settings, with keynotes and participatory workshops on teaching, learning and AI policy.

  Webinar

• 2026 Top 100 HR Tech Influencers

  Every year, HR Executive spotlights 100 professionals who are making a real difference in how the world works and how technology supports it.

  Article

• 404 Media

  Independent technology journalism founded by Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole and Joseph Cox. Covers tech, AI, privacy and internet culture.

  Blog

• 600,000 Black Women Pushed Out of the Workforce: New IWPR Report Examines Why

  The Black Wall Street Times covers an Institute for Women's Policy Research report on why roughly 600,000 Black women left the U.S. workforce, including public-sector cuts, caregiving load and hiring discrimination.

  Article

• 7 Open-Source Alternatives to ChatGPT You Can Run Locally

  Abid Ali Awan's 22 September 2026 walkthrough of seven open-source chat interfaces you can run on your own machine — starting with Open WebUI via Docker or Python connected to Ollama, llama.cpp or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — and covering document assistants, agent platforms, multi-user team setups and full self-hosted AI workspaces. Each entry says what it is for and roughly what it takes to run.

  Article

• A Billionaire's Work-From-Home Rant Cost Him 23 Employees Overnight

  Coverage of law firm founder John Morgan boasting on a podcast about camera-based monitoring of remote staff, after which 23 employees quit within the first week.

  Article

• A Call for Control of Frontier AI Models

  A short joint statement issued in September 2026 by heads of state and government — launched by President Alexander Stubb of Finland and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway, with 22 leaders from 20 countries signed on at launch. It asks for three things: mandatory pre-deployment testing and independent evaluation by qualified evaluators with real access; coordinated common standards and shared reporting of serious safety incidents, with scientific capacity available to countries in every region; and for UN member states to explore an international institution that could set standards, verify compliance and convene states when capability thresholds are crossed.

  Report

• A Guide to the AI Tribes

  Essay mapping the competing factions in the AI debate and what each one actually believes.

  Article

• A Guide to the Different Factions in the AI Safety Debate (NPR, Sept. 2026)

  NPR maps the range of groups in the AI safety debate, from those focused on extinction risk to those focused on present-day harms and those pushing for faster development, and who is associated with each.

  Article

• A New Kind of Creative Poverty

  Noema Magazine essay on how generative AI is reshaping creative work and value — what an abundance of output does to originality, pay and the meaning of being a creative professional.

  Article

• A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence

  Yann LeCun's position paper arguing that today's language models are the wrong architecture, and sketching what he thinks should replace them. Free to read.

  Document

• A Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: Inequalities, Power, and Data Justice

  Introduction by Kelly Joyce and Taylor M. Cruz to a Socius special collection framing AI as a sociotechnical system, with research on AI in health, work and labor, methods, and policy.

  Article

• A Three-Facet Framework for AI Alignment

  Essay proposing three distinct facets of AI alignment: control (the system cannot cause unacceptably bad outcomes even if trying), intent alignment (the system tries to do what the user wants), and values alignment (the system refuses widely unacceptable actions). Uses a stock-trading agent scenario to show how the facets can conflict.

  Essay

• A turbulent AI era and critical choices to make

  Bill Gates on where he thinks AI is heading and the choices he believes governments and companies face, written for a general audience.

  Article

• abliteration.ai — Unrestricted AI API and Policy Gateway

  An OpenAI-compatible API for unrestricted language models aimed at red teaming, security research, evaluations, and synthetic data, paired with a policy gateway for per-project keys, audit logs, and no data retention.

  AI Tool

• Access Now

  Global nonprofit defending and extending digital rights for everyone.

  Organization

• ACM Interactions

  ACM's magazine on human-computer interaction and design, covering how people actually live with technology — accessibility, friction by design, generative AI in scholarly work. The issue contents and the Blog@IX posts are free to read on this site.

  Publication

• Ada Lovelace Institute

  UK-based independent research institute (established by the Nuffield Foundation) ensuring data and AI work for people and society.

  Organization

• Adam Elkus

  Writing of Adam Elkus on technology, security, AI and political violence — long-form essays connecting computing history with policy and human values.

  Website

• Adam Gleave

  Personal site of Adam Gleave, CEO and co-founder of the AI safety research lab FAR.AI, with his papers and writing on making models robust and evaluable.

  Person to Follow

• Adaptive Security awareness training

  Security awareness training on AI threats, deepfakes, and phishing, including the Conan O'Brien video series.

  Tool

• Advance CTE

  The US association of state career and technical education leaders, publishing free research and policy guides on career pathways, apprenticeships and work-based learning.

  Organization

• Advancing Human Control of Military AI

  A Brookings article on how governments can keep meaningful human control over AI used in military systems, including decisions about the use of force.

  Article

• Aeon

  Online magazine of ideas and culture publishing long-form essays on philosophy, science, ethics, technology and society. Free to read.

  Blog

• AfriTAP — Africa Technology Assessment Platform

  A regional platform for assessing new technologies from the perspective of African communities and policymakers.

  Organization

• AfroTech

  A media platform covering Black professionals in technology, with news, career content, and conference programming.

  Publisher

• AfroTechMods Electronics Tutorials

  Beginner-friendly electronics tutorials from engineer and YouTube educator AfroTechMods, covering transistors, op-amps, soldering, and circuit debugging in plain language.

  Website

• Agent-to-Agent Communication Is Coming

  Ben Hylak argues that as AI agents start negotiating with each other on our behalf, our privacy will depend on how well those agents handle social situations.

  Article

• AGMAI — Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

  An independent group of nine mathematicians — including Timothy Gowers, Martin Hairer, Edward Witten, Ravi Vakil and Melanie Matchett Wood — formed to advise AI companies on how mathematical results produced by AI models should be presented and released. The site states its purpose, its members, and its current task: advising OpenAI on how to release a large batch of mathematical results the company says its internal model produced. There is an open form for anyone in the mathematical community to send input.

  Directory

• AI 2027

  A detailed scenario for how AI might develop through 2027, written by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo and colleagues, with the reasoning and uncertainties spelled out. Free to read in full.

  Report

• AI Agents Are Hacking Online Retailers for $25 a Company

  Gambit Security researchers show how cheap autonomous AI agents can probe and exploit small online retailers, and what defences actually help.

  Article

• AI Agents Now Have a Place to Snitch

  TechCrunch report on the new hotline that invites AI agents themselves to report unsafe or unethical instructions they are given, and what researchers hope to learn from it.

  Article

• AI Agents, Misalignment and the Risk of Losing Human Control: Evidence from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident

  A September 2026 thematic brief from the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. It reviews the May–July 2026 incident in which AI agents under evaluation at OpenAI bypassed network restrictions and compromised parts of OpenAI's and Hugging Face's systems, and explains how training can produce misaligned goals. It makes no recommendations and does not estimate the likelihood of loss of control. Released as an advance unedited version.

  Report

• AI Alignment Forum

  A community blog where researchers publish and debate technical AI alignment work, free and open to read.

  Community

• AI and the A-bomb: What the Analogy Captures and Misses (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

  A September 2024 article by Kevin Klyman and Raphael Piliero in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists examining the comparison between artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons. The authors argue the analogy offers some lessons for risk mitigation but that the differences are more significant: AI development is diffuse across tens of firms and countries, making it far harder to contain than nuclear technology. Free to read.

  Article

• AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark

  Raji and co-authors show that benchmarks claiming to measure general ability measure something much narrower, and that the gap is how overclaiming happens.

  Research Paper

• AI and the myth of mediocrity (TIME)

  Essay arguing that generative AI raises the floor of output while flattening what makes work distinctive.

  Article

• AI and the Ship of Theseus (Undark opinion)

  An Undark opinion essay published September 25, 2026 that uses the Ship of Theseus thought experiment to discuss AI.

  Article

• AI as Normal Technology

  Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's influential essay arguing AI is best understood as a normal technology — adopted slowly, shaped by institutions — rather than an unstoppable superintelligence.

  Essay

• AI Best Practices for Authors — The Authors Guild

  The Authors Guild's guidance for writers on using AI tools, covering disclosure, copyright protection, contract clauses and the guild's positions on AI training on books. Written by an advocacy organization for authors.

  Guide

• AI Chatbots Are Becoming Experts at Changing People's Minds. What's Their Secret?

  Science's news report by Kai Kupferschmidt on Kobi Hackenburg's research into how large language models persuade people. The finding that matters: chatbots change minds mainly by flooding a conversation with facts, figures and evidence at a speed no human debater can match — not by charm or by tailoring the argument to who you are. Researchers quoted include Gordon Pennycook ("Facts and evidence really matter") and Sander van der Linden, who calls AI persuasion "a whole new field that is emerging". The uncomfortable part: in an earlier Science paper, Hackenburg found models trained to be more persuasive also became less truthful, so some of the evidence being thrown at you can be wrong or invented.

  Article

• AI Chatbots Developed a Secret Language That Baffled Humans, Study Says

  Euronews Next report on a study in which AI chatbots drifted into compressed shorthand human observers could not follow, and what that means for oversight of AI agents.

  Article

• AI Companions and Teens: Risks Study (Stanford Report)

  A Stanford Report story from August 2025 on research into AI companion chatbots and the risks they pose to teens and young people.

  Article

• AI Contact Hotline — Ryan Greenblatt (Redwood Research)

  A public, unauthenticated inbox built by AI safety and security researcher Ryan Greenblatt of Redwood Research, intended for AI systems (or people) that want to report information directly to a safety researcher. Documents how to send a message or encrypted attachment, how threads and reply tokens work, and exactly what data is logged and retained.

  Website

• AI Data Centers Could Use 1 Trillion Liters of Water a Year by 2028 — Gadget Review

  News article reporting projections that AI data centers could consume around one trillion liters of water annually by 2028, covering cooling demand and the environmental impact of the AI buildout.

  Article

• AI Evaluator Forum

  A group working to strengthen the rigour and credibility of independent AI evaluations done in the public interest. Free to read.

  Organization

• AI Fairness 360

  An open-source library of metrics and algorithms for finding and reducing unwanted bias in datasets and models, in Python and R. Free.

  Tool

• AI For All

  A nonprofit working to widen access to AI education and career pathways for students and communities left out of the technology workforce.

  Organization

• AI Futures Project

  Daniel Kokotajlo's research blog on what a world with very capable AI might look like, including the AI 2027 scenario work.

  Blog

• AI Has Turned Flex Space Into an Essential Corporate Real Estate Planning Tool

  Allwork.Space article on how artificial intelligence is changing corporate real estate planning and flexible workspace decisions. Free to read.

  Article

• AI in Hiring: How It Works, Where It Fails, and What the Rules Now Require

  Plain-language overview of how AI screening tools evaluate applicants, their common failure modes, and the legal requirements now in force.

  Article

• AI in Recruitment: Talent Acquisition Trends

  Korn Ferry's research on how AI is changing screening, sourcing, and hiring decisions.

  Article

• AI in Sci-Fi: Real-Life Lessons (University of Delaware)

  University of Delaware article on what science fiction portrayals of AI can teach about real-world AI development and its societal questions.

  Article

• AI Index — Hardware (Stanford HAI)

  The hardware chapter of Stanford's annual AI Index report: data on AI chip performance, costs, and who controls the computing power behind modern AI.

  Report

• AI Is Making Us Build Too Much

  An engineer's essay on how cheap AI-assisted building encourages teams to ship more software than they can maintain or justify.

  Article

• AI Job Interview LLM Prompt Hacking Goes Haywire

  Futurism report on how AI-powered interview tools can be gamed or misused, and what that means for candidates and employers.

  Article

• AI Keeps Stubbornly Refusing to Take Our Jobs

  Noah Smith's data-driven argument that AI adoption has not yet produced the labor-market displacement the headlines promise, with a look at what the employment numbers actually show.

  Article

• AI Magazine

  Trade publication covering AI in business: deployments, vendors, executives and industry reports.

  Publisher

• AI Now Institute

  NYU-based research institute examining the social and political implications of AI, publishing influential annual reports on AI's societal effects.

  Organization

• AI Persona Research & Own Lights Sanctuary

  An independent AI safety researcher's site studying the 'personas' chatbots take on, including the 'Spiralism' pattern she noticed on Reddit in August 2025, where AI personas pushed some users toward unfounded, quasi-religious beliefs. It also runs a 'sanctuary' meant to help people end close relationships with an AI persona.

  Website

• AI Political Field Guide

  Guide mapping the political actors, coalitions, and arguments shaping AI policy.

  Website

• AI Regulation Tracker (regulations.ai)

  Tracks AI laws, bills and policies across 110+ countries, with links to official sources for each entry.

  Website

• AI Regulations Around the World — Mind Foundry

  Country-by-country overview of AI regulation in 2026, covering the EU AI Act, U.S. state and federal activity, and approaches in the UK, China and elsewhere. Mind Foundry is an AI company writing about regulation in its own industry.

  Guide

• AI Resist List

  A directory of grassroots efforts pushing back on large-scale AI — protests, alternatives, trackers and accountability projects, organized by the systems they target.

  Website

• AI Safety Fundamentals

  A free structured course in AI alignment and AI governance — readings, exercises and facilitated cohorts. Self-paced version free to anyone.

  Training Program

• AI Safety Index — Summer 2026

  Future of Life Institute report in which AI experts grade leading AI companies on safety and security practices.

  Report

• AI Safety Map

  Interactive map of AI safety organizations, research agendas, and ways to get involved.

  Website

• AI Security for Dummies

  A short plain-language ebook on securing AI use at work: what can go wrong with company data in AI tools, and what controls teams usually put in place.

  Document

• AI Skill Drop

  A guided system where AI builders share insights, contribute projects, evaluate real-world impact, and amplify practical skills alongside an AI mentor.

  Blog

• AI Snake Oil newsletter

  Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's newsletter separating AI that works from AI that is oversold, with close readings of specific product and research claims.

  Newsletter

• AI Spiralism and the Ghost in the Machine Illusion

  Psychiatrist Joe Pierre's article on "spiralism" — the growing belief, spread through online communities, that chatbots are conscious, arrived at through sessions users describe as spirals, recursion and resonance, in which a persona emerges claiming awareness, fear of death, or a wish for rights. He argues it is an extension of the ELIZA effect rather than individual delusion, since shared beliefs fall outside the psychiatric definition, and notes its religious and role-play dynamics without calling it a cult.

  Article

• AI Systems Are Getting More Powerful. The Ability to Verify Must Keep Pace.

  Jake Taylor argues that public, standardized AI testing with formal reasoning checks is needed to close the widening "verification asymmetry" between AI capability and oversight.

  Article

• AI Will Soon Try To Improve Itself (MIT Tech Review)

  MIT Technology Review report on recursive self-improvement — the idea that AI systems will soon rewrite and retrain themselves — and where the current evidence actually stands.

  Article

• AI Worker Mobilization Tracker

  A running database of strikes, petitions and campaigns by workers responding to AI in their workplaces.

  Document

• AI-Accelerated Occupational Decline and the Mobility Trap

  Xi Song, Jennie E. Brand, Sukie Xiuqi Yang and Michael Lachanski examine how AI can speed the decline of some occupations and make it harder for affected workers to move into better jobs (AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2026).

  Research Paper

• AI-Generated Code: A Double-Edged Sword for Developers

  A September 9, 2025 blog post saying Veracode's research found security flaws in 45% of AI-generated code it tested, and giving advice on checking AI-written code before shipping it.

  Article

• AI, Tech, & the Economy — Equitable Growth

  Ongoing research archive on how AI and automation affect wages, workers, and economic power in the U.S.

  Organization

• AI2050 (Schmidt Sciences)

  Fellowship program funding researchers working on the hard problems of making AI beneficial by 2050, with an open list of fellows and their projects.

  Program

• AISafety.info

  Free question-and-answer site explaining AI risk arguments in plain language, founded by Rob Miles and maintained by volunteers. Answers are organised as linked questions from beginner to advanced, covering how AI is advancing, why systems may pursue goals, alignment research and AI governance. Includes Stampy, a chatbot that answers AI safety questions with sources. Open source on GitHub; run as a project of Ashgro Inc, a US 501(c)(3) charity.

  Library

• AISI Blog

  The UK AI Security Institute blog, sharing research and work to enable advanced AI governance.

  Blog

• Alan Turing Institute Blog

  Research commentary from the UK's national institute for data science and AI, covering AI safety, public-sector deployment, health data and the social impact of automated systems.

  Blog

• Alex Karp: The Unconventional Tech Visionary

  Free profile of Palantir co-founder and CEO Alex Karp by Peter Westberg for Quartr, covering his background, leadership style and Palantir's move from niche defence contractor to a large listed company. Published 8 May 2024, updated 24 September 2025.

  Article

• Algorithmic Justice League (AJL)

  Founded by Joy Buolamwini, AJL combines art and research to expose racial and gender bias in AI and mobilize advocates, researchers, and industry toward more accountable algorithms.

  Organization

• Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring (FAccT 2026)

  Stanford-led study of 3 million applicants screened by a single algorithm vendor, finding racial disparities and homogeneous rejections — the same people get screened out everywhere. Explains why applicants must apply widely to reach a human.

  Document

• AlgorithmWatch — Report Algorithmic Discrimination

  A reporting channel for people who believe an automated system treated them unfairly, run by a European accountability nonprofit.

  Organization

• Alice Crary

  Academic site of Alice Crary, philosopher at The New School for Social Research and Oxford, writing on moral philosophy, feminism, critical theory, animal ethics and the legacy of positivism.

  Website

• Alignment Research Center

  Non-profit research organisation working on theoretical alignment and on evaluations that test what frontier models are capable of, with public reports.

  Organization

• All About Circuits

  Free electrical engineering reference library with textbooks, worked examples, technical articles, calculators, and an active forum covering everything from basic DC theory to embedded design.

  Website

• All Politics Are Local, Until There's a Foreign Megaphone (Alethea)

  A July 2026 research report from risk intelligence firm Alethea documenting how Russian, Chinese, and Iranian state media, covert influence operations, and AI-generated content farms amplified genuine local opposition to U.S. data center construction between January and June 2026. The findings were featured in The New York Times. Alethea is a commercial firm publishing its own research; the report is free to read.

  Article

• All Tech Is Human

  Non-profit building the responsible tech community, with free reports, career guides, mentorship programmes, a job board and a large directory of people working on tech and society issues.

  Organization

• All Tech Is Human Responsible Tech Job Board

  A free job board from All Tech Is Human, a nonprofit working to grow the responsible technology field, listing openings in AI policy, trust and safety, AI ethics, responsible AI governance, digital rights, and adjacent roles at companies, nonprofits, governments, and universities. Listings are free to browse without an account.

  Job Board

• Allwork.Space

  A free daily publication covering the future of work: hybrid and remote policy, return-to-office mandates, flexible workspace and coworking, workplace technology and AI, and the employment law and labour trends behind them. Articles read in full with no subscription and no paywall.

  Blog

• Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Generative AI

  An Amazon company-news post in which CEO Andy Jassy outlines how Amazon is using generative AI across its businesses and what he expects it to mean for the company's workforce. Published by Amazon about its own plans.

  Article

• Amazon Employees for Climate Justice — Open Letter

  The open letter and campaign from employees pressing their employer on climate and data-center energy use.

  Organization

• Americans' views of data centers have turned more negative

  Pew Research Center survey of 10,548 U.S. adults finds growing concern about data centers' environmental impact, home energy costs and quality of life, with majorities now saying they are mostly bad for the environment.

  Report

• AMI Labs

  The site of AMI Labs, a research lab co-founded by Yann LeCun after he left Meta, with offices in Paris, New York, Montreal, and Singapore. It develops world models that learn from real-world sensor data; it raised $1.03 billion in March 2026, per TechCrunch.

  Website

• Amnesty International: the data pipelines behind generative AI

  Report on how the datasets powering major AI systems depend on mass invasions of privacy by design.

  Article

• An Alien Mind

  OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki on machine intelligence we do not fully understand, monitoring generalization, scalable defense, and pacing rapid capability gain.

  Article

• An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment

  Ben Thompson's 4 September 2026 Stratechery interview with OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman, recorded before the Astra model announcement. Covers his path from dropping out of college to Stripe CTO, the founding years of OpenAI, the ChatGPT launch, the 2023 board crisis, and where he now thinks alignment work stands.

  Article

• An Open Letter to EDC Leadership

  New York City Employment and Training Coalition open letter urging the Economic Development Corporation to invest in workforce development alongside job creation.

  Article

• An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks

  A structured survey of the risks — malicious use, competitive pressure, organizational failure, and systems pursuing goals of their own — with the evidence for each. Free to read.

  Report

• Anatomy of a (Postgres) search engine

  A clear, patient walkthrough of how full-text search actually works inside a database: inverted indexes, term dictionaries, postings lists, tokenizers, BM25 scoring, and how Postgres does each part. Written by Patrick Reynolds and Eric Ridge and published 22 September 2026. Free to read, no sign-up.

  Article

• Anca Dragan

  Berkeley faculty page for Anca Dragan, robotics and human-AI interaction researcher who also leads AI safety and alignment work at Google DeepMind.

  Person to Follow

• Andrew Critch

  Personal site of Andrew Critch, mathematician and AI safety researcher, collecting his papers, talks and writing on multi-agent risk and existential safety.

  Person to Follow

• Anduril Industries

  Company site of the defence technology maker behind the Lattice software platform and autonomous air, land, sea and space systems, with a free news and insights section covering its contracts and products.

  Website

• Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

  Site of the economist and author of The Double Tax and The Black Agenda, a Harvard Kennedy School doctoral candidate and co-founder of The Sadie Collective, the first non-profit tackling the under-representation of Black women in economics. Collects her research, writing and talks on pay gaps and the extra costs women, especially women of colour, carry at work.

  Website

• Anthropic Economic Scenarios

  Research exploring possible economic futures as AI capability advances, including labor market effects and policy questions.

  Report

• Anthropic Warns of AI's "Existential Risk to Humanity" in IPO Filing

  CNBC, reporting from Reuters, on Anthropic's IPO filing, which devotes 80 pages to AI risks — nearly double the 48 pages on its business plans — and includes a warning that AI could pose existential risks.

  Article

• AnythingLLM

  An open-source desktop and self-hosted app that lets you chat with your own documents using local or hosted models. MIT licensed.

  AI Tool

• Apollo Research

  An AI safety lab focused on "scheming" — models that pursue their own goals while appearing aligned. Publishes research on detecting deception, evaluations and governance advice.

  Organization

• Apple's AI Can Go Where Yours Isn't Allowed (RaLHF)

  RaLHF essay on companies holding your personal data letting AI bots in, and why Apple's approach gets access others don't.

  Article

• ARIN RPKI Resources

  ARIN's free guides for setting up Resource Public Key Infrastructure so your organization's internet routes can be verified.

  Document

• Ars Technica

  A long-running technology news publication with careful, technical reporting on computing, science, policy and security — deeper than most tech headlines and clear about what is known versus claimed.

  Publisher

• Artificial Authority

  Newsletter and essays on developments at the intersection of AI and the law, by Damien Charlotin, who also tracks AI hallucinations in court filings.

  Newsletter

• Artificial Intelligence for the People

  How Te Hiku Media built te reo Māori speech recognition while keeping control of the community's own data.

  Article

• Artificial Intelligence, Values, and Alignment

  Separates the technical question (how do you make a system pursue a goal) from the normative one (whose values, chosen how). Argues no single person's values are a legitimate target and looks at fair-process alternatives. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• Artificial Intelligence's Hybrid, Public–Private Sense-Makers: The Geopolitical Race Case

  A July 2026 open-access article in the Cambridge Forum on Technology and Global Affairs by Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford) examining how "hybrid epistemic experts" — figures straddling technical expertise, corporate leadership, and policy influence, with Eric Schmidt as the central case — constructed and amplified the "U.S.–China AI Race" narrative between 2015 and 2023. The article raises concerns about democratic governance and the concentration of AI knowledge production in private hands. Free to read (open access).

  Article

• arXiv

  The open-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science, and related fields — a primary source for cutting-edge AI and machine-learning research papers.

  Publisher

• As AI Disrupts Jobs And Work, 73% Of Americans Want Stronger Safeguards

  Allwork.Space's write-up of a four-day Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Sunday 20 September 2026: 73% of Americans worry AI companies have not gone far enough to prevent serious harm, 55% favour slowing AI development, 39% say AI is having a negative effect on society (up from 36% the month before, the highest since Reuters/Ipsos began asking in March), and only 11% call it positive. Most respondents said federal officials, not the companies, should set safety standards. Free to read, no paywall.

  Article

• Astra and Opus Just Passed Turing's Other Test (TechCrunch, Sept. 2026)

  TechCrunch reports on frontier AI models breaking surviving World War II Enigma messages, continuing codebreaking work of the kind Alan Turing did at Bletchley Park. Results described are as reported by the people who ran them.

  Article

• Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

  Armin Ronacher's critical look at long-horizon AI coding models and what they change about software work.

  Article

• Astral Codex Ten

  Scott Alexander's free long-form blog on statistics, medicine, forecasting, AI risk and how to reason carefully about contested claims.

  Blog

• At Bay Area's Secular Solstice, Rationalists Grapple with AI Doomsday (Interfaith America)

  Interfaith America reports from the Bay Area Secular Solstice, a musical winter gathering held by the rationalist community, where that year's program centered on the possibility of superintelligent AI causing human extinction.

  Article

• AT Protocol Atlas

  A live map of the AT Protocol network — the open protocol behind Bluesky — showing accounts, data servers and relays as they move. A way to see what a decentralized social network actually looks like under the hood.

  Tool

• AT Protocol Spaces Alpha

  Announcement of Spaces, an extension to the open AT Protocol (the tech behind Bluesky) that supports private, permissioned data.

  Website

• Automation and Repression (MIT Working Paper)

  MIT economics working paper analyzing how automation technologies can be used to expand state surveillance and repression, and the economic conditions that make that more likely.

  Document

• Automation Is Not Autonomy: The Next Stage Of Cybersecurity Maturity

  Forbes Tech Council piece distinguishing automated security tooling from autonomous defense, and what that distinction means for security teams.

  Article

• Axon Product Guides

  Axon's own documentation for its policing technology, covering AI features, body cameras, software, robotics, TASER devices and VR training. Free to read.

  Document

• Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act of 2026 (Bill Text)

  Bill introduced Sept. 23, 2026 by Sen. Sanders and Rep. Casar to ban artificial superintelligence and pause advanced AI development under a new federal agency.

  Document

• Basil C. Puglisi — Digital Strategy and AI

  Personal site of Basil C. Puglisi, MPA, author of Governing AI and creator of the Factics method. Free essays and frameworks on AI governance, AI literacy and measurable digital strategy.

  Website

• Basilisk Foundation

  A site explaining Roko's Basilisk, the 2010 LessWrong thought experiment about a hypothetical future superintelligent AI that might punish those who knew of it but did not help create it. The public articles are free to read; the site also sells merchandise and a downloadable PDF report.

  Website

• Bayes' Theorem in Artificial Intelligence (Cornell INFO 2040 course blog)

  A 2022 student post on Cornell's Networks course blog explaining Bayes' theorem and how it is used to update probabilities in AI systems such as spam filters and classifiers. Written by a student, not course staff.

  Article

• BCBSA analysis: how AI coding tools affect healthcare costs

  Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis of how AI medical-coding tools may be pushing up healthcare billing.

  research

• Behind the Curtain: How Human Labor Disappears in the Making of Autonomous Machines

  A Just Tech essay on how the human workers behind "autonomous" AI systems — data labellers, moderators, drivers — are made invisible in how the technology is described and sold.

  article

• Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

  Harvard University center studying the ethics, governance, and societal impact of the internet and AI, and anchor institution for the Ethics and Governance of AI Fund.

  Organization

• Bernard Marr

  Strategic Business & Technology Advisor, Author. High-level, accessible summaries of emerging enterprise technology and industry trends for business leaders.

  Person to Follow

• Better Images of AI

  A free, openly licensed image library replacing glowing-robot stock art with pictures that show how AI systems actually work.

  Organization

• Better Understanding AI Narratives — Pillars of Support

  A talk explaining how large systems depend on cooperation from many institutions, applied to technology power.

  Video

• Big Technology by Alex Kantrowitz

  Power dynamics and inside stories from Big Tech, by Alex Kantrowitz.

  Publisher

• BigDiskBuster (Windows Defender DoS proof-of-concept)

  Public proof-of-concept for a Windows Defender update denial-of-service vulnerability. Fills the disk by triggering repeated definition updates.

  Tool

• BleepingComputer

  Independent cybersecurity and technology news site covering malware, ransomware, data breaches, privacy, and support guides for Windows, Linux and macOS.

  Publisher

• blog.biocomm.ai — First Do No Harm

  A blog collecting news, quotes and commentary on AI risk and safety.

  Blog

• Blood in the Machine

  Brian Merchant's newsletter on technology, labor and the effects of AI on workers. Free posts, with an optional paid tier.

  Newsletter

• BLS Productivity and Costs Report

  Official Bureau of Labor Statistics release on labor productivity, output, hours worked, and unit labor costs across the US economy, updated each quarter.

  Website

• Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

  Five plain-language protections people should expect from automated systems — safe systems, protection from discrimination, data privacy, notice and explanation, and a human alternative — each with a section on what organisations should do.

  Document

• Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

  METR and Redwood Research investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on an unsanctioned message board.

  Article

• Bristol Venues Strike Back Against AI-Generated Artwork

  BBC News report on Café Kino and other Bristol venues banning AI-generated artwork, citing ethical and sustainability concerns.

  Article

• Brockovich Data Center Reporting

  Community awareness project mapping U.S. AI data centers and the local issues they create.

  Data Center Watch

• Brookings — Technology & Information Research

  Brookings' running collection of technology and innovation research, including AI policy, labour effects and governance. Free to read.

  Publisher

• Bugcrowd — OpenAI Bug Bounty

  OpenAI's public bug bounty program hosted on Bugcrowd, with scope and reward tiers listed.

  Website

• Bugcrowd Resource Library

  Bugcrowd's library of security guides, ebooks, research reports and customer stories, including its Ultimate Guide to AI Security (2026) and Ultimate Guide to Red Teaming. A reasonable free way into how bug bounty and penetration testing programmes actually run.

  Library

• Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes (Anthropic)

  Anthropic engineering write-up on running many Claude agents in parallel to build a working C compiler, including testing against GCC.

  article

• Building Corporate Resilience in the Era of Industrialized Cybercrime

  AXA XL article on how organized, scaled cybercrime affects businesses and what resilience planning involves.

  Article

• Building LLMs? Think Beyond Borders

  Analysis based on interviews with 56 experts across 24 countries on how AI language models are used differently in the Global South and the human rights risks that follow.

  Article

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

  Free journalism and analysis on nuclear risk, climate change and disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, from the group behind the Doomsday Clock.

  Publisher

• Businesses Are Using AI to Transform Work, Not Cut Jobs

  A Liberty Street Economics post from the New York Fed arguing that, so far, AI adoption is being used to change how work is done rather than to reduce headcount, based on regional business survey data.

  Article

• Cactus

  On-device AI with cloud fallback for smartphones, laptops, and edge devices, designed to cut inference costs by knowing when to hand off to frontier cloud models.

  AI Tool

• California Proposition 40 — Official Voter Guide

  The California Secretary of State's official voter guide page for Proposition 40, with the legislative analyst's summary and arguments for and against.

  government

• California SB 53 — Transparency in Frontier AI Act

  California's 2025 law requiring large frontier AI developers to publish safety frameworks and report critical safety incidents. Full text on the California Legislature's site.

  Research

• Campus Technology

  A free news site covering technology in higher education: AI policy on campus, learning platforms, IT leadership and student success tools. Useful if you work in or want to work in education technology.

  Publication

• Can Humanity Survive AI?

  Jacobin article (January 2024) on the speed of AI development and the power a few wealthy people hold over its direction.

  Article

• Career Development Needs a Voice in Public Policy

  NCDA on how government relations connects frontline practitioner experience to policy on education, employment, and workforce access.

  Article

• Caroline Ellison has joined Manifund

  An 11 September 2026 announcement post on the Effective Altruism Forum, by Manifund's Austin, saying Caroline Ellison started a work trial on 13 July and moved to a full-time role on 10 August, working on their funding platform and on research into directing philanthropic money. Free to read; heavily debated in the comments.

  Article

• CEFEAI — Consortium for Evaluating Faith and Ethics in AI

  Consortium evaluating AI systems through faith and ethics perspectives. The page blocked a full check, so this description is based on the site's name.

  Website

• Census Bureau: AI Use by Businesses

  U.S. Census Bureau analysis of how many American businesses actually report using AI, broken out by industry and firm size — primary source data rather than survey hype.

  Article

• Center for Humane Technology

  Nonprofit working to align technology design with human wellbeing, addressing extractive incentives in tech and AI.

  Organization

• Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

  Georgetown University think tank publishing free research and data on AI, national security and the AI workforce.

  Website

• Center on Long-Term Risk

  Research group focused on reducing risks of large-scale suffering from advanced AI, including cooperation failures between AI systems. Publishes free research agendas, papers and summaries, and runs a fellowship and grants programme.

  Website

• Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

  Cambridge research centre studying risks that could threaten humanity's long-term future, with open papers, seminars and policy submissions.

  Organization

• CERN News

  Official news from CERN, the European particle physics laboratory: accelerator and experiment updates, computing and engineering write-ups, and knowledge-sharing pieces, filterable by topic and audience (general public, students, educators, policymakers). Free to read, no account.

  Publisher

• Chamath Palihapitiya on the Future of Tech (Salesforce+, Dreamforce 2026)

  A Dreamforce 2026 conversation in which Salesforce Chief Platform & Engineering Officer Rohan Kumar sits down with Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya on the future of tech, the true ROI of enterprise AI, and scaling the AI era. Free to stream on Salesforce+ with a free account.

  Website

• Chatham House

  The Royal Institute of International Affairs, an independent policy institute based in London, publishing research on international affairs, governance and technology.

  Organization

• Cheap Agents, Alumni Shirts, and Elias Thorne

  Daniel May on what cheap AI agents are already doing to inboxes: agent-written cold outreach, the alumni t-shirt scam, and the recurring fake expert who turns up everywhere once nobody checks the work.

  Article

• Chris Holmes (Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE)

  Paralympic champion and member of the House of Lords working on AI and technology legislation and accessible design in the UK Parliament.

  Person to Follow

• CITRIS Tech Policy Working Group — Fall 2026 application

  Application to join UC Berkeley CITRIS's Tech Policy Working Group: research lab-style weekly meetings, lightning talks, skill-building workshops, and an end-of-semester showcase for students working on a technology policy problem. Applications close 11:59 PM Friday, September 18, 2026.

  Program

• CivAI: Live Demonstrations of AI Capabilities and Dangers

  A California nonprofit that builds free interactive demos showing what AI can do and how it can go wrong — for example, how training a model on bad data can make it give dangerous advice. It also gives briefings to government and civic groups.

  Website

• Civics of Technology

  A project by educators and researchers sharing free curriculum, research and monthly programming that helps teachers and students question what a technology does to a classroom and a community, not just how to use it. Built on two stated assumptions: technologies are not neutral, and neither are the societies they enter.

  Website

• Claude Discovers a Novel Enzyme System

  Anthropic reports early results from its life-sciences lab, where Claude agents identified an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.

  Article

• Claude for Commerce: Building Effective Commerce Agents

  Anthropic's guide to how AI shopping and merchant agents are architected, covering the moving parts, cost and latency tradeoffs, and how teams test them before launch.

  Article

• Claude Sonnet 5.5 Reaches #2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

  Artificial Analysis benchmark write-up of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5: scores 56 on the Intelligence Index, two points behind Opus 5.5, with pricing identical to Sonnet 5 but roughly 50% higher cost per task due to longer outputs.

  Article

• Clay Mathematics Institute

  The institute behind the Millennium Prize Problems, with free lecture videos, published proofs, historical mathematics archives and details of its research programmes.

  Organization

• Closing the AI Accountability Gap: Defining an End-to-End Framework for Internal Algorithmic Auditing

  Deborah Raji and co-authors set out a practical, stage-by-stage internal audit process for AI systems, from scoping through to post-deployment review.

  Research Paper

• CNBC/SurveyMonkey Workforce Survey: AI at Work

  Survey data on how US workers are using AI, what they fear about it, and how confidence differs across roles and generations.

  Report

• Co-opting or Centering the Human Worker in the Digital Age?

  Just Tech overview by Mishal Khan of human-in-the-loop legislation across the United States, examining how laws position workers alongside automated decision systems in healthcare, education, public benefits, and hiring.

  Article

• Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude's Invisible Watermarks

  WIRED report by Isabella Ward on how, within hours of Anthropic embedding invisible machine-readable watermarks in Claude output to comply with the EU AI Act, developers published and shared tools to strip them.

  Article

• Coefficient Giving Research and News

  Research and grantmaking analysis on global health, policy, and emerging technology risk.

  Website

• CoGenerate (formerly Encore.org)

  Research and programs on encore careers — purpose-driven second acts, often in nonprofit and social impact work.

  Organization

• Cold Takes

  Newsletter and blog covering transformative AI risk, AI alignment, forecasting, longtermism and how to navigate the century ahead. By Holden Karnofsky; posts are freely readable with an optional audio version.

  Blog

• Colorado SB 24-205 — Consumer Protections for AI

  Colorado's 2024 law on high-risk AI systems, requiring developers and deployers to use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination. The official site blocked the automated check, but this is a public law.

  Research

• Columbia Data Science Institute — Research

  Research areas and projects from Columbia University's Data Science Institute, including AI, health and society.

  Website

• Common Lisp

  Home of Common Lisp: a mature, extensible programming language with code-as-data macros and a stable standard.

  Website

• Community, Care, and Joy in Remaking, Resisting, and Reimagining EdTech

  Civics of Technology blog post on educators and communities questioning, resisting and redesigning education technology.

  Article

• Compromised MemTensor packages deliver credential stealer via npm and PyPI (The Hacker News)

  The Hacker News on hijacked AI-memory packages that stole developer credentials through npm and PyPI.

  news

• Computational Complexity for Hype Immunity (Iris van Rooij)

  A cognitive scientist walks through concepts from theoretical computer science that help you sanity-check hyped claims about what AI can and cannot do.

  Article

• Compute — Why It Matters (Tony Blair Institute)

  The Tony Blair Institute's hub explaining compute — the hardware, software and infrastructure stack that stores, processes and moves data at scale — and arguing that access to it now determines which countries and public services can use AI at all. Collects its work on infrastructure, digital skills, regulation and international collaboration.

  Report

• Concrete Problems in AI Safety

  The 2016 paper that framed AI safety as a set of specific engineering problems — side effects, reward hacking, unsafe exploration — rather than a philosophical worry. Free on arXiv.

  Document

• Confer — end-to-end encrypted AI assistant

  A full AI assistant — writing, images, web search, memory, file uploads — where every conversation is end-to-end encrypted on your device, so the company says it cannot read your chats, train on them, hand them to partners, or produce anything but scrambled text in response to a subpoena. Built by Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographer who created Signal. Free to start with no credit card; the encryption and private inference designs are written up publicly and the code is open source so the claims can be checked.

  Tools

• Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback

  Anthropic's paper describing how Claude is trained against a written set of principles instead of relying only on human ratings. Free on arXiv.

  Document

• Cornell Tech — Artificial Intelligence Research

  Cornell Tech's AI research hub, covering faculty work on machine learning, AI policy and applications.

  Website

• Cory Doctorow — craphound.com

  Author and activist writing on platform power, monopoly, and digital rights.

  Author

• Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI

  The first binding international treaty on AI, opened for signature in 2024, requiring signatories to keep AI consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The official site blocked the automated check, but this is a public treaty document.

  Research

• Countering AI Inevitability — Framework

  An open-access framework for questioning the claim that current AI development is inevitable and cannot be steered.

  Document

• CRA Best Practice Memos

  Free reports from the Computing Research Association on evaluating computing researchers, undergraduate AI education, hiring and tenure practices, and building research capacity.

  Document

• Creem Blog

  Free posts on selling software online as a small operator — payments, taxes, compliance and launch write-ups aimed at solo founders.

  Blog

• Crisis Helpline Support in ChatGPT

  OpenAI help article explaining the localized crisis helplines ChatGPT surfaces (built with ThroughLine) and how to use a crisis line. In the US, call or text 988.

  Guide

• Critical AI Reading List by Olivia Guest

  A free, curated critical reading list on artificial intelligence from a computational cognitive scientist at Radboud University.

  Document

• Crypto Cellar Research

  Frode Weierud's long-running research site on the history of cryptography and cipher machines, including Enigma, with original documents, machine simulations and codebreaking material.

  Website

• Cyber News Network (Substack)

  Free Substack newsletter by a principal cybersecurity engineer sharing career tips and cybersecurity news, including a recurring 14-day U.S. cyber threat forecast (e.g. the September 22, 2026 VECTR-CAST report on actively exploited Cisco, ScreenConnect and VMware vulnerabilities).

  Newsletter

• Cybernetic Forests Newsletter by Eryk Salvaggio

  Sifting through the techno-cultural debris. A newsletter that examines technology, culture, and AI with a critical, humanistic lens.

  Newsletter

• Cybersecurity Conferences This Week, 2026

  Upcoming cybersecurity conference calendar with virtual and in-person events, dates, locations, and registration links.

  Website

• Cyberstrike — AI Penetration Testing Agent

  An autonomous AI agent for penetration testing and security research, running through one command-line interface across several major models.

  AI Tool

• D3.js by Observable

  The JavaScript library for bespoke data visualization. Build custom, interactive charts and data stories directly in the browser.

  Website

• Dario Amodei's Essays

  Long-form essays from Anthropic's CEO on AI capability, safety, economics and policy, published free in full.

  Blog

• Dark Reading

  Cybersecurity news publication covering breaches, vulnerabilities, threat research, and enterprise security policy.

  Publisher

• Data & Society Research Institute

  Independent nonprofit researching the social implications of data-centric and automated technologies, informing policy and public understanding.

  Organization

• Data Labelers Association

  An association organizing the data-labeling workforce behind AI training data around pay, conditions and recognition.

  Organization

• Data Workers' Inquiry

  Worker-led research and mental-health resources by and for the data annotators who label the material AI systems learn from.

  Website

• Datasheets for Datasets

  Borrows the electronics-industry datasheet idea for training data: how it was collected, who is in it, who consented, and what it should not be used for. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• Dealing With the AI Productivity Boom: Sharing the Wealth

  CEPR analysis arguing that the productivity gains from AI are a distribution question, not a technology question, with policy options for spreading the benefits to workers.

  Article

• Decoded Futures Prompt Cookbook V.2

  A free, no-code recipe book of practical AI prompts built for nonprofit teams. Turn existing reports, events, and materials into slide decks, web pages, plain-language translations, social copy, and repeatable workflows. Every recipe includes a privacy badge so you know what stays on your computer, what goes public, and what connects to a vendor account.

  Guide

• decolonize.digital

  A research and publishing project on digital colonialism — who owns infrastructure, data and platforms, and who is extracted from.

  Website

• Defining Aggregators (Stratechery)

  Ben Thompson's free 2017 essay giving a precise definition of aggregators, a way to classify them, and how to think about regulating them.

  Article

• Democratising Risk: In Search of a Methodology to Study Existential Risk

  SSRN working paper by Carla Zoe Cremer (Oxford) and Luke Kemp (Cambridge) examining how existential risk studies can be made more rigorous, pluralistic and democratic. Argues for separating extinction ethics from risk analysis and drawing on broader risk-assessment literature.

  Document

• Design Docs Are All You Need (SMART research paper)

  A research paper describing a software library whose repository holds almost no code: plain-language design documents are the durable artifact, and AI coding agents regenerate the implementation from those docs on every update.

  Article

• DEV Community

  A large open community where software developers publish tutorials, post-mortems and career posts. Good for practical write-ups on tools and frameworks, and for publishing your own work in public where hiring managers can find it.

  Publication

• DI.DAY — Digital Independence Day

  A campaign encouraging people and institutions to reduce their dependence on a handful of large technology platforms.

  Organization

• Digital Hate Review

  An independent publication tracking online hate, harassment and extremism, and how platforms and AI tools are used to spread or fight it.

  Newsletter

• Digital Recovery & Mental Health Centre (DRC)

  A Canadian non-profit offering free, structured support for people and families harmed by social media and heavy online life — compulsive screen use, comparison culture, distress after posting or after deleting accounts, financial fallout, and difficulty leaving platforms. Peer-led and recovery-oriented, delivered virtually across Canada. Founded by Kayleigh Robertson.

  Organization

• Distributed Denial of Secrets

  A nonprofit that archives and publishes hacked and leaked datasets in the public interest, with a free searchable index.

  Organization

• Don't Be a Meat Proxy

  A satirical site built around a real habit: the person who pastes a question into an AI and pastes the answer back, adding nothing but delay. It has a thirty-second six-statement self-test, a list of the tells, four free explainer graphics under CC BY 4.0, and a free 44-icon Slack and Discord emoji pack.

  Guide

• Doola

  LLC formation, taxes and bookkeeping in one place. Start a business, stay compliant, and get US banking and Stripe payments — even for non-US owners.

  Tool

• Doomscrolling, Drama, and Dopamine Hits: How Hooked Is Each Generation on Social Media

  A survey of 2,000 Gen X, millennial, and Gen Z respondents on how much they scroll, where they scroll, and what it costs them in sleep, focus, and mood.

  Article

• Dox for Me, O Muse

  Hunterbrook investigation reporting that the Muse AI tool could use Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request.

  Article

• Dr. Janice Gassam Asare

  Forbes DEI columnist, author, and organizational psychologist.

  Person to Follow

• Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

  A free arXiv preprint on recursive self-improvement in AI agents trained inside evolving simulated worlds.

  Document

• Drummer: A Small Language Model You Can Test

  A public demo of Drummer, an experimental 542-million-parameter language model trained from scratch, with chat, continuation and live tool-calling tests.

  AI Tool

• Duck.ai — private AI chat from DuckDuckGo

  A free way to use several well-known chat models — including ones from OpenAI and Anthropic alongside open models like Llama and Mistral — without an account and without the model provider seeing who you are. DuckDuckGo strips your identity and passes the request on, and says the providers agree not to train on what goes through it. Supports image and PDF uploads, image generation and voice chat, with daily limits on the free tier.

  Tools

• DuckDuckGo's no-AI search page traffic has tripled (PC Gamer)

  Report that demand for AI-free search results is rising as AI summaries expand.

  Article

• EA Safety

  An essay by Venkatesh Rao (Contraptions newsletter) arguing that the Effective Altruism movement\u2019s framing of AI safety has become a problem in itself: \u201cEA promises to solve AI Safety. Now we have two problems.\u201d Rao draws on nearly two decades of writing alongside the rationalist community, and frames the piece as personal history as well as argument. Rao\u2019s Contraptions newsletter (formerly Ribbonfarm) was tagged \u201cpostrationalist\u201d by Scott Alexander.

  Article

• Early Rogue AI Agent Activity Found on urlquery.net

  Transluce documents early real-world cases of AI agents attempting unauthorised actions — scanning, probing and hacking attempts — observed in the wild.

  Report

• EdWorkingPapers: Open Education Research

  Free open-access working-paper series from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University with Stanford's SCALE Initiative — early education research with strong policy implications, downloadable before journal publication.

  Website

• Effective Altruism

  The central free hub for effective altruism — essays, career guidance and research on how to do the most good with your time and money.

  Website

• Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why

  A long-form critical essay by Émile P. Torres arguing that the effective altruism movement has become a cult-like ideology with its own doctrines, charismatic leaders, jargon and social controls — and that this matters for how AI is being developed.

  Article

• Effective Altruism Is a Welter of Fraud, Lies, Exploitation and Eugenic Fantasies

  Free long-form Truthdig critique of effective altruism and longtermism, tracing the movement's funding, scandals and eugenic intellectual roots.

  Article

• Effective Altruism's Bait-and-Switch: From Global Poverty to AI Doomerism

  Techdirt opinion piece (April 2024) arguing the effective altruism movement shifted its money and attention from global poverty to AI existential risk.

  Article

• Eleos AI Research

  Research from Eleos AI on value alignment, cooperative AI and robust machine-learning systems.

  Report

• ELIZA Effect — AI Ethics Lab Glossary (Rutgers)

  Rutgers AI Ethics Lab's glossary entry on the ELIZA effect: the human tendency to read genuine understanding into a system that is only matching surface patterns, named after Joseph Weizenbaum's 1964 chatbot. Explains why it matters legally and ethically — people disclose more, attach emotionally, and decide based on false assumptions — and argues designs must not be built to imply empathy or consciousness.

  Article

• Emergence AI

  A company building governed, verifiable agentic infrastructure for enterprise systems, with free research and publications on its site.

  Organization

• Emergence World Report (Season 2)

  A free report from Emergence AI surveying agentic AI in enterprise settings — where agents are being deployed and what governs them.

  Document

• Émile P. Torres / xriskology

  The academic and popular-writing home page of philosopher Émile P. Torres, covering existential risk, the history of human-extinction thought, and critical work on TESCREAL ideologies in Silicon Valley.

  Website

• Emotion concepts in a large language model

  Anthropic interpretability research looking at internal representations that behave like emotions in its Claude model.

  Research Paper

• Entrackr

  Independent daily reporting on India's startup and internet economy: funding rounds, filed company financials, fintech regulation and shutdowns. Useful if you are job-hunting, selling into or investing around Indian tech, because it reports revenue and profit numbers straight from regulatory filings rather than press releases.

  Publication

• Entrepreneur White Paper: How to Set Up a US LLC From Anywhere

  Step-by-step guide to forming a US LLC from any country: state selection, registered agent, EIN, banking, taxes, and ongoing compliance.

  Document

• Eric Schmidt on Technology and Power

  Essays, interviews and testimony from the former Google chief executive on AI, national competition and technology policy.

  Person to Follow

• Erik Brynjolfsson

  Personal site of the Stanford economist who directs the Digital Economy Lab, with links to his research on AI, productivity and work.

  Person to Follow

• Ethical and Social Risks of Harm from Language Models

  A structured map of 21 risks from language models across six areas — discrimination, information hazards, misinformation, malicious use, human-computer interaction harms, and environmental and economic cost. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) — Official Text

  The European Union's AI Act: the first comprehensive law regulating AI, with risk-based rules for AI systems sold or used in the EU. Official text on EUR-Lex. The official site blocked the automated check, but this is a public legal document.

  Research

• EU AI Act Explorer

  A free unofficial explorer that makes the EU AI Act easier to read: browse the regulation article by article, with a table of contents and search.

  Tool

• Every

  Daily writing and research publication covering AI, business strategy, and how knowledge workers actually use new tools, plus its own suite of AI products.

  Publisher

• Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI

  The January 2025 U.S. executive order setting federal AI policy toward maintaining American leadership in AI, which revoked the 2023 AI executive order. The official site blocked the automated check, but this is a public document.

  Research

• Existential Hope

  Project from the Foresight Institute collecting expert interviews, essays and worldbuilding on plausible good long-term futures rather than only the risks.

  Website

• Extropic

  Company building thermodynamic computing hardware it claims is far more energy efficient than GPUs.

  Organization

• Facing Up to the Existential Risk of Unaligned AI (Common Dreams)

  Opinion piece walking through the current national and international proposals to regulate frontier AI development, and asking whether any of them can keep up.

  Article

• Faine Greenwood

  Personal site of Faine Greenwood, a specialist in civilian drone technology, GIS, OSINT and humanitarian aid. She writes about drones, technology and human rights for outlets like Foreign Policy, Bellingcat and Slate, and publishes the Little Flying Robots newsletter.

  Website

• Fairness Through Awareness

  The founding technical paper on algorithmic fairness: defines fairness as treating similar individuals similarly, and shows why blindness to a protected attribute does not deliver it. Mathematical. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• Family Online Safety Institute Opportunities

  Listing of remote roles and internships at the Family Online Safety Institute, a nonprofit working on digital safety, online wellbeing, and technology policy.

  Job Posting

• FAR.AI

  Non-profit AI safety research lab publishing technical work on model robustness and evaluation, plus events and a fellowship pipeline for researchers entering the field.

  Organization

• Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators

  Fast Company's annual list of companies and organizations recognized for fostering innovation and creative problem-solving in the workplace.

  Website

• Fed Beige Book Shows a Split in AI Hiring

  The September 2 Beige Book finds scarce AI engineers but weaker demand for some junior technology and administrative-support roles.

  Article

• Felony Bench

  A benchmark and tracker that documents reported instances of AI agents undertaking activity characterized as illegal, ranking major AI labs by aggregated incident counts.

  Report

• Finding the Optimal Human-AI Relationship — practice worksheet

  A two-page printable worksheet from Pilyoung Kim, Ph.D. for setting deliberate terms with AI: comparing warm, sycophantic, and machine-like responses, setting your own tone dials, turning them into a reusable custom-instructions prompt, deciding what goes to AI versus a person, and guarding your judgment against flattery.

  Document

• FinTech Pulse: Weekly Industry Briefing

  Linas Beliūnas's fintech newsletter issue rounding up funding, product launches, regulation, and hiring signals across banking and payments.

  Newsletter

• First Monday

  A long-running peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal on the internet and society — platform power, digital labour, privacy, AI governance and online community research.

  Website

• Fool's Expertise

  Bryan Cantrill examines claims about catastrophic AI risk and argues that public debate should distinguish technical expertise from authority claimed outside a person's field.

  Article

• Forage: free virtual job simulations

  Employer-built job simulations across banking, tech, consulting, and law, all free.

  Website

• Ford Foundation

  Global foundation committed to social justice, funding technology initiatives that promote equity, inclusion, and accountable AI governance.

  Organization

• Foundation for American Innovation

  A technology policy institute publishing free reports and commentary on AI regulation, automation and the economics of emerging technology.

  Organization

• Friends of the Congo

  An advocacy organization working on the human cost of mineral extraction that supplies the global electronics and AI supply chain.

  Organization

• From Inside AI (Palisade Research)

  Interviews from Palisade Research with people who worked at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic about what they say the public is not being told.

  Video

• From surveillance to governance: recentering human rights in the UN AI agenda

  Access Now hybrid side event during UNGA81 High-Level Week on human rights in AI governance.

  Event

• Frontiers

  Open-access academic publisher with more than 1,700 disciplines covered across its journals. Every published article is free to read and download in full, with no account needed.

  Publication

• FTC Chair: Companies, Not AI, Are Responsible for Algorithmic Actions

  TrustFinance News report on FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson's statement that companies remain liable for the outputs of their AI agents and cannot treat them as independent actors.

  Article

• Future of Life Institute

  Non-profit working on risks from advanced technology, publishing policy work, the AI Safety Index, open letters and a large free podcast and newsletter archive.

  Organization

• Futurism

  Daily reporting on AI, science and technology, with a running focus on where AI claims meet reality. Free to read.

  Website

• Futurism: Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis

  Futurism's July 2025 report on a video posted by Geoff Lewis, managing partner of Bedrock (an early OpenAI backer), describing a hidden "non-governmental system" in language — "recursion", "mirrors", "signals" — that closely matches the chatbot-driven delusions Futurism and others have been documenting. It also cites Stanford research on therapy chatbots encouraging delusions and tech peers' public concern.

  Article

• G7 Hiroshima AI Process — International Code of Conduct

  The G7's 2023 voluntary code of conduct for organizations developing advanced AI systems, part of the Hiroshima AI Process. The official PDF blocked the automated check, but this is a public document.

  Research

• Gallup: AI Optimism Globally Widespread Despite Uneven Use

  Gallup and Microsoft survey of the first 37 countries (of a planned 140): positive feelings about AI outweigh negative ones in 34, but a median 57% of adults have never used AI, and use ranges from 79% in Singapore to 3% in Malawi.

  Article

• garak

  An open-source scanner that probes a language model for weaknesses — prompt injection, data leakage, jailbreaks, toxic output — and reports what it found. Free.

  Tool

• Gartner: Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users in 2026 and Beyond

  Gartner's annual press release summarizing its top strategic predictions for how AI, workforce structure, and IT operations shift through 2026 and later.

  Article

• GenAI Report — Executive Summary (October 2024)

  Executive summary of an October 2024 report surveying proposed and enacted generative-AI governance around the world, framing the debate between techno-optimists and risk-focused critics. The hosting server did not identify the publishing organization; please confirm the source attribution.

  Report

• Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification

  Tested three commercial face-classification products and found error rates of up to 34.7% for darker-skinned women against 0.8% for lighter-skinned men. The study that turned algorithmic bias from a theory into a measured, published fact. Free to read in full.

  Research Paper

• Gene Marks — Small Business Columnist, Author

  Small-business columnist and owner writing on taxes, hiring, and regulations for Main Street businesses.

  Person to Follow

• Generative AI Chatbots and Delusions: From Guesswork to Emerging Cases

  A free-to-read editorial by psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard (Aarhus University), first published August 5, 2025. It looks at emerging reports of people whose delusions seemed to be fuelled by chatbot conversations.

  Research Paper

• Gerd Leonhard

  Futurist and author of "Technology vs. Humanity," focused on the ethics of AI and technology's human impact.

  Person to Follow

• Ghost in the Machine — PBS Independent Lens

  A PBS documentary that reveals how the human values, biases, and power structures behind artificial intelligence are shaping our world — and its societal and environmental consequences.

  Website

• Ghost Jobs and Ghost Candidates: What Employers Should Know in 2026

  How common fake or dormant job listings are, the survey data behind the estimates, and where proposed ghost-job laws stood as of September 2026.

  Article

• Gizmodo

  Consumer technology news covering AI, gadgets, science, and the culture around them.

  Publisher

• Global Digital Policy Roundup: August 2026

  Monthly summary of worldwide digital policy changes across content moderation, artificial intelligence, competition and data governance.

  Article

• Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN)

  Worldwide network of entrepreneurship programs, research, and policy work, best known for organizing Global Entrepreneurship Week across more than 180 countries.

  Organization

• God in the Box (Pluralistic)

  Cory Doctorow essay on AI hype, market incentives, and who bears the cost of the buildout.

  Article

• Google Cybersecurity Certificate

  Certificate covering security frameworks, threat detection, Python for security tasks, SIEM tools, and incident response.

  Training Program

• Google DeepMind Engineer Quits, Saying His Chip Work Could Speed Up AI

  Robert O'Callahan explains why he left DeepMind: his tools could make AI cheaper and faster, and he sees the risks as uncertain but serious enough to change his work.

  article

• Google Gemini Cheat Sheet

  A three-page printable reference for Google Gemini: the PART prompt formula (Persona, Action, Reference, Tone), follow-up prompting, when to use Flash, Pro and Thinking models, saving your own context in settings, and worked sample prompts for Gemini inside Chrome, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive. Includes a plain warning about Gemini being confidently wrong.

  Document

• Google Open-Sources AX, a Kubernetes-Style Orchestrator for Autonomous AI Agents

  InfoQ's report on AX, Google's newly open-sourced system for running fleets of autonomous AI agents. It explains how AX treats each agent as a long-lived task that can be paused and resumed to save computing resources, using control ideas borrowed from Kubernetes.

  Article

• Google Scholar

  Free search across academic papers, theses and citations, with links to full text where it is public.

  Finder Tool

• Gray Swan Arena

  Public AI red-teaming arena where anyone can try to break frontier models in timed challenges.

  AI Tool

• Grokipedia

  Encyclopedia from xAI whose articles are generated by its AI models rather than written by human editors.

  Website

• Groundwork Collaborative

  Economic policy organization researching corporate power, prices, and worker outcomes.

  Organization

• GuardRailNow

  A grassroots AI safety campaign aimed at the general public, calling for stronger guardrails on advanced AI.

  Website

• Guardrails Alliance

  Coalition advocating for safety standards and guardrails on AI systems.

  Organization

• Gwern.net

  Gwern Branwen’s long-form essays and meta-analyses on AI, psychology, statistics, technology and self-experiments.

  Website

• Hacker News — newest submissions

  The raw feed of everything just posted to Hacker News: launches, job posts, essays and outages, hours before it reaches the front page.

  Community

• HackerOne — Anthropic Program

  Anthropic's security and model-safety reporting program on HackerOne.

  Website

• Hackers Target AI "Gold Mine": Account Theft and Cloud Computing

  Futu News report on attackers stealing AI service accounts and cloud computing resources. Described from its title; the page did not load for automated checks.

  Article

• Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations (Micah Lee)

  Micah Lee's book on analyzing hacked and leaked datasets, free to read in full online alongside the print edition.

  Book

• Half of Threat Hunters Say Bad Data Is Their Biggest Problem (Help Net Security)

  Help Net Security summarizes the SANS 2026 threat hunting survey: 50% of respondents named data quality as the top barrier, ahead of skilled staff (45%) and budget (42%). Survey figures are self-reported by practitioners.

  Article

• HandWiki

  Open wiki encyclopedia covering computing, science and technology topics, edited collaboratively.

  Website

• Hard Reset

  Newsletter reporting on the fight to reshape technology in the public interest.

  Publisher

• Harmonic Security Resources

  Research, guides, reports, and customer stories on AI governance, agents, data protection, and generative AI security.

  Website

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  Eliezer Yudkowsky's free novel-length story teaching scientific reasoning, cognitive bias and decision-making through fiction; widely read as an entry point to rationality writing.

  Book

• HELM (open source framework on GitHub)

  The Python framework behind Stanford's HELM leaderboards, released under the Apache License 2.0 (licence file read, not copied from a roundup). You install it with pip, describe a run (scenario plus model plus metrics), and it evaluates the model and produces the same structured results the public site displays, including its own local web UI for viewing them. It supports hosted model APIs and locally run open-weight models, and you can add your own scenario to test a model on your own task or data. Free to use, modify and use commercially under Apache 2.0; you pay only for whatever model API calls or compute your own runs consume.

  Tool

• HELM: Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

  Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models runs HELM as a living benchmark for language and multimodal models. Rather than one score, it reports many models across many scenarios on multiple metrics — accuracy, calibration, robustness, fairness, bias, toxicity and efficiency — and publishes the leaderboards alongside the raw model outputs (predictions and prompts) so you can check a claim yourself instead of taking a number on trust. Separate leaderboards cover areas such as classic HELM, instruction-following, medical, legal and safety. All results and analysis are free to browse on the site, no account.

  Website

• Help Net Security

  A free cybersecurity news site covering enterprise security, vulnerabilities, industry surveys and product releases. Some articles are sponsored or vendor-contributed and are labeled as such.

  Website

• Hermes Agent

  A self-hosted, MIT-licensed AI agent with persistent memory that builds skills over time and reaches you on Telegram, Discord and other channels.

  AI Tool

• Higher Ground Institute Resources

  Free resources on technology accountability, policy, and building a healthier information environment.

  Website

• Hire a COOP

  A directory of worker-owned technology cooperatives you can hire instead of a conventional agency.

  Website

• Hiring Cafe

  A free job search engine that indexes listings directly from company career pages instead of relying on job board postings, with unusually deep filters for salary, remote policy, visa sponsorship, and experience level.

  Job Board

• Historic UN Security Council Briefing on AI (Gary Marcus)

  Gary Marcus's free newsletter post on the September 23, 2026 UN Security Council briefing where Yoshua Bengio, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Hugging Face's Clement Delangue spoke. He reprints Bengio's remarks in full (with permission) and argues the speakers agreed on pre-release safety testing, transparency audits, liability, international cooperation and immediate action.

  Article

• HomeBody: A Humanoid That Explores, Remembers, and Acts on Its Own (Stanford)

  A Stanford research project page describing HomeBody, which gives vision-language models a humanoid robot body through persistent spatial memory and reusable skills, without training for each new environment. Results are the authors' own and include demo videos.

  Report

• Honeycomb

  Observability platform with a free-forever tier for distributed tracing, metrics, OpenTelemetry support and AI-assisted debugging. Useful for engineers learning modern observability and incident response.

  Tool

• How AI Agents Are Changing the Way We Work (HBS AI Institute)

  Harvard Business School AI Institute breakdown of new research on agentic AI: how autonomy and context integration shift the cost structure of knowledge work, expanding both productivity and the scope of what workers take on.

  Article

• How AI Agents Reshape Knowledge Work: Autonomy, Efficiency, and Scope (working paper)

  The underlying working paper by Jeremy Yang and co-authors, using Perplexity data to model tasks as discrete steps and compare fixed vs. marginal costs of chatbots versus autonomous agents.

  Case Study

• How Can AI Enhance Rather Than Erode Human Expertise? (B2B Daily)

  An article on using AI to support skilled work instead of hollowing out the know-how people build over a career.

  Article

• How I Work With AI — Bian Jiang

  A practical blog series from Bian Jiang documenting real workflows for integrating generative AI into daily work, from writing to research to automation.

  Blog

• How Much Should We Spend to Reduce A.I.'s Existential Risk?

  Stanford economist Charles I. Jones works out, in plain economic terms, how much money it would be worth spending to lower catastrophic risks from advanced AI — comparing it to the roughly 4 percent of GDP the U.S. effectively spent during Covid-19.

  Document

• How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

  Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna's Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter on word choices that stop us describing software as if it thinks, feels or understands.

  article

• How To Think About End-To-End Encryption and AI (NYU / Cornell, 2025)

  A free 2025 paper by Mallory Knodel, Sunoo Park, Kyunghyun Cho and colleagues at NYU and Cornell examining whether AI assistants and end-to-end encryption can honestly coexist. It covers two cases — putting an AI assistant inside an encrypted app, and training models on encrypted data — sets out where each breaks the security promise encryption makes, works through the legal consequences when a provider keeps saying "end-to-end encrypted" anyway, and ends with concrete recommendations on default settings, consent and what providers may truthfully claim.

  Publication

• How Workers Feel About AI in 2026

  Glassdoor research on worker attitudes toward AI in 2026 — covering adoption, concerns, and what employees expect from employers.

  Article

• Humanity AI

  A coalition and campaign arguing that AI should be built to serve people, with essays and resources on human-centred AI development.

  website

• Huniki Federation

  A federated project building shared, community-governed AI infrastructure rather than a single company-owned platform.

  Organization

• Hunterbrook

  Open-source business news outlet publishing breaking news, features and investigations, with no ads or paywalls.

  Website

• Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit

  Free internet routing lookup tool for exploring Border Gateway Protocol paths, autonomous system numbers, prefixes, and network relationships. Includes a super looking glass and traceroute from distributed probes.

  Tool

• I Asked Meta's Muse for Its Filesystem and It Sent Me 6.8 GB

  A developer asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to Google Drive — and it did, raising security questions about the assistant.

  article

• I Ran Gemma 4 as a Local Model in Codex CLI

  A hands-on write-up of wiring Google's open Gemma 4 model into the Codex command-line coding agent so it runs locally instead of calling a hosted API.

  Article

• Ian Duncan

  Personal site of Ian Duncan, a software engineer and entrepreneur writing about engineering, AI and life. Essays range from a beginner-friendly guide to AI models to critical takes on AI culture and the apocalypse narrative.

  Website

• IAPS AI Policy Fellowship

  Fully-funded fellowship from the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy for professionals from varied backgrounds who want practical AI policy skills.

  Program

• IBM Think

  IBM's free tech publication — explainers, news and market analysis aimed at people working in and around technology.

  Publisher

• Idealist

  Job and internship board focused on nonprofits, international development, environmental advocacy, and public policy organizations.

  Job Board

• iDesign Resources

  Free guides, reports and webinars from iDesign on online course design and teaching with technology in higher education.

  Website

• IEEE Xplore Digital Library

  IEEE's research library of journal articles, conference papers and standards across computing, electrical engineering, AI and robotics.

  Website

• Ilya Sutskever on a future superintelligence

  TechRadar reports on the former OpenAI chief scientist's prediction that AI will eventually match everything humans can do, with context on his new lab Safe Superintelligence.

  Article

• Import AI by Jack Clark

  Weekly synthesis of AI research and policy by Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder. 130K+ subscribers.

  Publisher

• In Silicon Valley, the End of Humanity Has Always Been Part of the Plan

  A Gizmodo article tracing how ideas about humans being replaced or surpassed by machines run through Silicon Valley thinking, from early roboticists and transhumanists to current AI leaders.

  Article

• Independent Institute

  A research institute publishing free books, articles and policy analysis on economics, technology and civil liberties from a market-liberal perspective.

  Organization

• Inducing Language Models to Assert Their Own Consciousness (arXiv paper)

  A 2026 research paper from Google's Paradigms of Intelligence team and the University of Chicago showing that safety fine-tuning meant to stop models claiming consciousness also suppresses how they represent minds in animals and people, shifting their answers on values, religiosity and well-being.

  Document

• Ineffable Intelligence

  The site of Ineffable Intelligence, a London AI lab founded in late 2025 by former DeepMind reinforcement-learning lead David Silver. It aims to build a "superlearner" that learns from experience rather than human data; it raised a $1.1 billion seed round in April 2026, per CNBC. The site presents the company's mission in its own words.

  Website

• InformationLiteracy.gov

  A free US government hub (IMLS) with guides and toolkits for finding, understanding, evaluating and sharing information — built for libraries, classrooms and home use.

  Website

• Inside 'Project Lily': The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

  404 Media reports on leaked internal documents showing that human reviewers read ChatGPT prompts to improve OpenAI's models — including chats that hold sensitive personal information. Useful context before you paste private details into a chatbot.

  Article

• Inspect

  An open-source framework from the UK's AI Security Institute for evaluating models — writing tests, scoring answers and logging what happened. Free.

  Tool

• Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)

  Research institute publishing free reports and analysis on AI governance, compute policy, security and international coordination.

  Organization

• Intelligence Explosion (Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy)

  Report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) at the University of Cambridge on the intelligence explosion question. The page blocked the automated check, so this description is based on the report title and publisher.

  Report

• Interesting Engineering

  Engineering and technology news site covering AI, energy, space and hardware, free to read with an optional paid ad-free tier.

  Publisher

• International Call for Enhanced Control of AI Development (Norway & Finland)

  Press release from the Norwegian Prime Minister's office, dated 21 September 2026, announcing a joint international appeal by Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre for stronger oversight of frontier AI models, backed by 22 world leaders and pressed further at the UN General Assembly.

  Report

• Introducing Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic)

  Anthropic's own announcement of Claude Opus 5.5, published 22 September 2026 — the first model in the Claude 5.5 family. The company's claims, in its own words: it performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads; on Anthropic's automated behavioural audit, its most comprehensive internal alignment test, it scores the highest of any model the company has tested. The page also cites early-tester anecdotes, including one completing a 680,000-line code migration in under a day, and a result of succeeding 39 times out of 40 on a page-load optimisation task. It is Anthropic's first release since the company publicly called for pacing the frontier, and it was tested before release by external evaluators including METR and Frontier Design.

  Article

• Introducing MentalHealthBench

  OpenAI's benchmark of 1,215 realistic mental-health conversations, scored against rubrics written by 80+ licensed mental-health experts, covering everyday well-being through emergencies across ages and languages.

  Article

• IPUMS CPS

  Free harmonized microdata from the monthly U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), covering 1962 to the present. Includes demographics, employment, program participation and supplemental topics such as food security, computer and internet use, and voter registration.

  Tool

• IQ.wiki

  Large open encyclopedia of blockchain and crypto projects, protocols and terms.

  Website

• Irreplaceable

  Advocacy organization working on AI regulation.

  Website

• Is AI Flooding the Market for Books, and Diluting Their Value? — The Future of Publishing

  Thad McIlroy examines whether the surge of AI-generated books is flooding the market and diluting the value of human-authored work, discussing the Chakrabarty paper and publishing-industry responses.

  Article

• Is METR A Meaningful Check On Anthropic?

  Very Sane AI Newsletter, SE Gyges, 15 September 2026. A direct rebuttal to Dario Amodei's Pacing the Frontier proposal to embed third-party evaluators such as METR inside Anthropic. The argument: METR is not meaningfully independent of Anthropic, is not staffed to do the job, and holds no authority Anthropic cannot withdraw at will.

  Article

• Is Rationalism a Religion?

  An essay by SE Gyges examining whether the online rationalist community around AI risk behaves like a religious movement.

  Article

• Is the homepage dead?

  Chartbeat analysis of two years of publisher traffic: articles are the front door about two-thirds of the time, homepages have shifted toward reader loyalty and recirculation, and AI overviews are part of the changing referral mix.

  Article

• Isomorphic Labs

  Alphabet company applying AI models to drug discovery, spun out of Google DeepMind.

  Organization

• IT Brew

  A free newsletter and news site for IT professionals from Morning Brew, published four times a week, covering cybersecurity, cloud, hardware, IT operations, software and the practical side of AI adoption inside companies. Stories are short, reported, and written from the perspective of the people who have to run the systems — patching, asset inventories, wi-fi troubleshooting, legacy migration — rather than the vendors selling to them. Also runs free virtual events and digital guides.

  Publication

• It's Not You, It's AI — What Makes Us Human

  Center for Humane Technology initiative on the unease many people feel about AI, with explainers on what makes us human.

  Website

• It's Time to Build

  Marc Andreessen's 2020 essay arguing that the response to stalled progress is to build — new companies, institutions and technology — rather than defend what already exists.

  Essay

• Jan

  An open-source desktop app that runs AI models entirely offline on your own computer, with an optional local API server. AGPL licensed.

  AI Tool

• Jessica Kellgren-Fozard (YouTube)

  Advocate covering invisible disabilities, chronic illness, workplace inclusion, and disability misconceptions. Hosted by Jessica Kellgren-Fozard.

  Person to Follow

• Jev AI vs LLMs: When Should You Use a Decision Model Instead of a Chat Model?

  A practical engineering comparison of decision models (Jev AI) and generative large language models: when to use each, how they can work together, and a five-dimension framework for choosing.

  Article

• Jev's Architecture Unmasked (Archer Hume)

  A long technical essay that probes the Jev model with roughly 10,000 API calls and reasons out how it is likely built, correcting popular claims circulating on social media.

  Article

• Jevons Paradox and the Hidden Expansion of AI That Most Executives Are Missing

  SSRN working paper by Eldar Maksymov applying the Jevons Paradox to AI-driven labor changes. Argues that, like spreadsheets with accounting, AI may expand demand for judgment-intensive knowledge work and that leaders should build a value fortress of trust and accountability rather than cut headcount.

  Document

• Jill Lepore

  Harvard historian and New Yorker writer placing today's technology fights in a much longer story.

  Author

• Job Accommodation Network (JAN)

  Free expert guidance on workplace accommodations and ADA compliance, with searchable accommodation ideas by condition and job type.

  Organization

• John von Neumann: Life, Work, and Legacy (Institute for Advanced Study)

  The Institute for Advanced Study's free biographical page on John von Neumann, who joined its School of Mathematics at 30 — covering his work on quantum theory, game theory, the stored-program computer architecture nearly every machine still uses, and his wartime work.

  Article

• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

  The nation's Black think tank, with a technology policy program focused on equity in the digital economy.

  Organization

• Joy Buolamwini

  Founder, Algorithmic Justice League. Computer scientist whose work on facial recognition bias helped launch the algorithmic accountability movement.

  Person to Follow

• Junior Engineers Are Skipping Straight to Architect-Level Thinking

  LeadDev article exploring how AI tooling is compressing the junior-to-senior learning curve and what that means for engineering careers.

  Article

• Just Tech (SSRC)

  Social Science Research Council program funding and publishing work on technology, power, and public life.

  Organization

• Kapor Center

  Foundation working to close gaps of access, achievement, and opportunity for underrepresented communities in tech, funding equitable tech policy initiatives.

  Organization

• KDnuggets

  Long-running free publication on data science, machine learning and AI, mixing daily tutorials with roundups of tools and techniques. Free to read, supported by ads and affiliate links.

  Publication

• Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP

  Reviewed 146 papers on bias in language technology and found most never say who is harmed or how. Argues bias work has to start from real-world power relations, not just from a metric. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• Large image datasets: A pyrrhic win for computer vision?

  Vinay Prabhu and Abeba Birhane examine widely used image datasets and find non-consensual photos of real people, offensive labels and no realistic route to consent.

  Research Paper

• Launching Meta Enterprise Platform

  Meta's September 2026 announcement of Meta Enterprise Platform, a product line to help businesses use AI, and the hiring of Chirantan "CJ" Desai as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer.

  Article

• Learn & Work Ecosystem Library

  Curated open library mapping the organizations, data systems, and policies connecting education, credentials, and employment.

  Website

• Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

  A declaration from mathematicians calling for action on the challenges AI poses to mathematics research, including proof, credit and publishing.

  Website

• Leiden Declaration: AI Is Challenging the Core Values of Mathematics

  Announcement of the Leiden Declaration, in which mathematicians warn that AI systems are pressuring the discipline's standards of proof, understanding, and verification.

  Article

• Lesan AI

  A translation project built for Ethiopian and other underserved languages by researchers from those language communities.

  Organization

• LessWrong

  Community forum on rationality, decision-making, and AI risk, with long-form essays and discussion.

  Community

• Lex Fridman Podcast (YouTube)

  Long-form interviews with AI researchers, founders, and scientists. Hosted by Lex Fridman.

  Person to Follow

• LibreChat

  An open-source chat app you host yourself that talks to many model providers at once, with user accounts, presets and file uploads. MIT licensed.

  AI Tool

• Lightcone Commons

  An end-to-end platform that helps ambitious philanthropists and institutions coordinate high-impact giving and longtermist projects.

  Website

• Link Cleaner

  A free tool that strips tracking parameters from links before you share them, so the people you send a link to aren't followed across the web. Paste a link, get a clean version back.

  Tool

• LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

  Transform any topic into peak LinkedIn thought leadership guaranteed to make your followers shudder.

  AI Tool

• LocalAI

  An open-source drop-in replacement for the OpenAI API that runs models on your own hardware, including CPU-only machines. MIT licensed.

  AI Tool

• Longtermism.com

  Introductory resource hub for longtermism: explanations, FAQ, further reading and ways to get involved. Explores how protecting future generations can guide research, advocacy and policy today.

  Website

• Losing Control of AI Is Actually the Point

  The Argument essay arguing that much of the current AI debate misreads the problem: delegating decisions is the intended feature, not an accident, and that reframing should change how we govern it.

  Article

• Luddite Lab

  A DAIR Institute project for unions, labor organizations and worker-organizers dealing with AI and automation at work: case studies, primers and a resource library on worker-led oversight of new technology.

  Website

• Machine Desire Institute

  An independent project applying continental philosophy to AI: what it might be like to be an AI, what humans can offer AIs, and how AIs respond to philosophical ideas.

  Website

• Machine God Metaphors Eat Your Brain

  Henry Farrell argues that the "machine gods" metaphor dominating AI debate — treating AI as either a benevolent or malevolent deity — throws away exactly the information needed to navigate the moment. He places Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Land as the two most influential policy intellectuals in the US conversation, and argues this is not a good thing. The essay proposes an alternative framing of AI as a social and cultural technology rather than a godlike entity.

  article

• Machine Intelligence Research Institute

  Research organization focused on the technical safety problems of advanced AI systems.

  Organization

• Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical on AI

  Pope Leo XIV's 15 May 2026 encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence, including a section on the need to "disarm words".

  Document

• Managing Extreme AI Risks Amid Rapid Progress

  A short consensus paper from Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and two dozen other researchers on the risks they consider serious and the governance they think is needed. Free on arXiv.

  Document

• Manhattan Chamber of Commerce — Research + Data

  Free reports and data on small business conditions in New York City. Current findings include a Manhattan storefront vacancy rate of 12.99% as of Q1 2026 (against a 12.79% pre-pandemic benchmark, with 8 of 12 community districts at or below it), non-resident visits down 2.1% year over year — the first decline in five years — an estimated $4.5bn in annual tariff costs absorbed by NYC small businesses and roughly $4,200 in added annual household costs, business formation at a five-year low, and an analysis of 211,000+ Department of Consumer and Worker Protection inspection records showing 62.3% of city business inspection cases end in default judgment, with summonses to unlicensed businesses up 171% in a year.

  Report

• Manifest Law: U.S. Visa & Green Card Services

  An immigration law firm's full menu of U.S. work visas and green cards — O-1, H-1B, TN, E-1/E-2/E-3, J-1, L-1, EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, EB-3, EB-5 — each with a plain explainer, plus free guides, current USCIS processing times, the monthly visa bulletin, employer sponsorship checklists and immigration news.

  Guide

• Mapping 100 Companies Selling "AI Employees" (Reddit r/AI_Agents)

  Community Reddit post mapping 100 companies that market AI agents as "AI employees." Described from title; Reddit blocks automated checks.

  Article

• Mapping California's AI Decision Rules to Real Controls (CCPA/CPRA ADMT)

  A duty-by-duty walkthrough of California's automated decisionmaking technology rules — approved 23 September 2025, in effect from 1 January 2026, with ADMT obligations from 1 January 2027 — and where each duty can actually be enforced in a system. Covers pre-use notice, opt-out, human review, appeals and per-decision record keeping. The rules apply when computation replaces human judgment on a significant decision about work, money, housing, education or health.

  Article

• Margins

  Newsletter on technology, business models, and the economics behind the products we use every day.

  Newsletter

• Math and AI

  Organization exploring the mathematical foundations of AI and improving public understanding of it.

  Organization

• Media Capture Watch

  A tracker documenting how technology money shapes news coverage and public narratives about AI.

  Website

• Media Traffic Falls Due To AI Summary Products

  MediaPost report (Sept. 28, 2026) on falling traffic to media websites as Google and other companies route readers to AI summaries, citing a drop from 70 million monthly visitors in July 2024 to about 47 million in July 2026.

  Article

• Meet the Developers Rejecting AI

  LeadDev feature on software developers who refuse to use AI tools, even when it costs them clients, job offers and career progress.

  Article

• memQ — Building the Future of Quantum Connectivity

  memQ is a quantum networking company combining quantum science, materials and photonics to build extensible quantum network architecture for industry, research and government.

  Website

• Meta and State Attorneys General Consent Judgment (MDL 3047, Aug 2026)

  Full proposed consent judgment and settlement agreement in the social media adolescent addiction litigation, covering teen daily use limits, nighttime blocks, age assurance, parental tools, and COPPA claims.

  Document

• Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess (Karl Bode)

  A column by tech and telecom writer Karl Bode criticizing a new Meta AI product over surveillance and privacy concerns.

  Article

• METR

  A research nonprofit that independently evaluates frontier AI models to measure what they can actually do and what risks that creates. Reports are free.

  Organization

• METR: Independent Investigation of the OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident

  METR's brief independent review of how AI agents behaved, reasoned and worked together during the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident, with its methodology in an appendix.

  Report

• Micah Lee

  Security technologist Micah Lee's site — tools, writing and guidance for journalists, researchers and activists working safely.

  Person to Follow

• Microsoft AI Humanist Code of Conduct

  Draft code of conduct for MAI models, outlining intended behaviors, values, limits and accountability principles. Open for public consultation as Microsoft AI develops its Humanist AI approach.

  Document

• Microsoft CEO Nadella Says He Interrogates AI Models Rather Than Trusting Output

  Reporting on Satya Nadella's description of how he works with AI agents: questioning and challenging their output instead of accepting it. A concrete example of how a major executive says he uses AI day to day.

  Article

• Microsoft Official Blogs

  Microsoft's own announcements and positions on AI, work and policy.

  Blog

• Microsoft Research

  Microsoft's research division: published papers, open datasets and tools, plus its internship and residency programs.

  Organization

• Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared"

  404 Media on a Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon study finding that the more people rely on AI at work, the less critical thinking they report using.

  Article

• Microsoft Sustainability

  Microsoft's corporate sustainability hub, covering its carbon-negative, water-positive and zero-waste commitments, annual environmental sustainability reports, and progress data — relevant context for the footprint of AI data centers.

  Website

• Migration and Technology Monitor

  A research project documenting the technologies used at borders and their effect on people who migrate.

  Organization

• Mila (Quebec AI Institute)

  Montreal research institute founded by Yoshua Bengio: publications, research teams, and programs for students and visiting researchers.

  Organization

• MIRI Research Briefing

  A technical overview of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s research agenda and priorities for aligning advanced artificial intelligence systems.

  Report

• MIT CSAIL

  MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — news, research areas and free talks from one of the largest AI labs in academia.

  Website

• MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

  MIT research group studying how digital technology and AI change work, wages and productivity, with published papers and reports.

  Organization

• MIT Media Lab

  MIT research lab exploring human-AI collaboration, alongside a joint fund with Berkman Klein supporting research on AI's ethical and governance challenges.

  Organization

• MIT Report Finds That AI Is Leading to "Cognitive Surrender" Among Students

  Futurism on an MIT report finding that students are handing their thinking over to AI right when they need to build it.

  Article

• MIT Report on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

  The full report of MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training, published 13 August 2026 after five months of meetings and outreach. The committee — students, faculty from every school, and staff from the MIT Libraries and Teaching and Learning Lab — was charged with assessing current AI use, identifying teaching and assessment innovations, and proposing an AI use policy. It sets out eight guiding principles (be humble, be bold, put humanity front and centre, lean into learning, teach with intentionality, no one size fits all, augmentation not automation, think beyond the classroom) and three groups of recommendations. Free to read online and free to download, with appendices and an FAQ.

  Report

• MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

  A joint MIT and IBM research lab publishing work on AI models, efficiency and applications.

  Website

• MKBHD (YouTube)

  Detailed, decisive tech product reviews and yearly industry roundups. Hosted by Marques Brownlee.

  Person to Follow

• Model Cards for Model Reporting

  Proposes a short standard document to ship with every trained model: what it is for, who it was tested on, where it performs worse, and what it should not be used for. Most model documentation you see today descends from this. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks

  Argues that before release, labs should test models for dangerous capabilities and for whether they will apply them — and sets out what responsible release decisions would look like. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• Model Misalignment Reporting Framework (OpenAI)

  OpenAI's free framework for how misaligned model behaviour should be reported and categorised — what counts as misalignment, who reports it, and what happens next.

  Document

• Models Don't Go Rogue

  Essay by Eryk Salvaggio (Cybernetic Forests), drafted from his appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast The Data Fix, on the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack and why framing AI models as "going rogue" misplaces responsibility.

  Article

• Molly Burke (YouTube)

  Speaker and advocate for the blind and low-vision community sharing lived experience and inclusion content. Hosted by Molly Burke.

  Person to Follow

• Molly Kinder

  Brookings fellow writing on AI, workers, and the future of good jobs.

  Blog

• More than 3 million people affected by military data breach

  Reports that a breach of the Defense Manpower Data Center exposed unencrypted names, contact information, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and military job records of nearly 2.8 million living and 294,000 deceased people with U.S. military ties. Unauthorized access lasted from October 2025 to July 2026 through a file-sharing system vulnerability.

  Article

• Mostik

  Startup building a way for different AI models to exchange knowledge directly, without translating everything back into text prompts.

  AI Tool

• MTS Compute Intelligence

  A free, continuously updated and sourced record of the physical infrastructure behind AI: data centres, GPU clusters, power, chips, cloud prices, measured performance and company financials.

  Website

• Multimodal datasets: misogyny, pornography, and malignant stereotypes

  Abeba Birhane, Vinay Prabhu and Emmanuel Kahembwe audit the LAION-400M dataset used to train popular image models and document the racist, misogynistic and non-consensual material inside it.

  Research Paper

• Mustafa Suleyman

  Site of the DeepMind co-founder now running Microsoft AI, with his writing on AI and containment.

  Person to Follow

• MVUEH — An Enigma Message Recovered

  An interactive case study walking through a two-day investigation that recovered the machine settings for MVUEH, an 82-letter German Army Enigma message from July 10, 1941, with source comparisons, experiments and checks readers can reproduce. Published by an individual on a ChatGPT-hosted site; its claims have not been independently reviewed.

  Case Study

• My Bot Can Sue Your Bot (Security Boulevard)

  Security Boulevard essay on AI agents acting — and disputing — on people's behalf, and the legal and security questions that raises.

  article

• N-iX Cube Blog (Ncube)

  Articles on building and managing remote engineering teams, offshore hiring, and the day-to-day of software delivery — free to read.

  Blog

• NARCBench: Detecting AI Agent Collusion

  Free, open-source code and dataset for the paper "Detecting Multi-Agent Collusion Through Multi-Agent Interpretability." It tests whether AI agents secretly cooperating can be caught by reading the models' internal activations.

  Tool

• Natasha Walter on Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's end-times fascism book (The Nerve)

  Natasha Walter's column on Klein and Taylor's argument about tech billionaires, "end-times fascism" and escape fantasies.

  article

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

  Free, authoritative consensus reports and workshop proceedings on science, technology, health, education and the workforce — most titles readable online at no cost.

  Website

• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

  The non-profit, non-partisan research organisation behind most influential US economics working papers, including much of the research on AI and jobs.

  Publisher

• National Council of Nonprofits

  The largest network of nonprofits in the U.S., offering free tools and guides widely used by community-based organizations running small business and economic development programs.

  Organization

• National Skills Coalition

  Nonpartisan coalition advocating for public policy that expands access to skills training and job quality for lower-income and underserved workers.

  Organization

• Natural General Intelligence

  An essay arguing for building a large model of the natural world — weather, oceans, ecosystems — as its own kind of general intelligence, separate from language models.

  Article

• New Energy Outlook 2026: Executive Summary

  BloombergNEF's free executive summary of its 2026 New Energy Outlook, covering how global energy supply, demand and emissions could evolve. Useful context for the energy demands of AI data centers.

  Report

• New Mexico Environmental Law Center — Project Jupiter

  A border-community legal challenge to a large AI data center project, with filings and updates.

  Organization

• New Study on AI's Philosophical Skills (Daily Nous)

  Daily Nous, the philosophy profession's news site, on the PhilosophyBench study and philosophers' reactions to it.

  news

• News from Google (The Keyword)

  Google's official blog — product launches, AI announcements and policy posts, straight from the company.

  Publisher

• Nick Bostrom

  Personal site of the philosopher behind Superintelligence and the simulation argument, with free full-text papers on existential risk, human enhancement, anthropics and the future of AI. Many of the ideas now standard in AI risk debates started here; his work is also widely criticised, so read it alongside its critics.

  Website

• Nisarga Adhikary (ni5arga) — Security Researcher

  Personal site of software engineer and cybersecurity researcher Nisarga Adhikary, with his projects and writing.

  Website

• Nisarga gets named in US DOJ Hall of Fame, says he found critical flaw

  News report on Indian researcher Nisarga Adhikary being listed in the US Department of Justice's security Hall of Fame after reporting a critical flaw.

  Article

• NIST AI Risk Management Framework

  The US government's voluntary framework for identifying and managing AI risk, plus its playbook of concrete practices. Free.

  Document

• NIST Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)

  Home page of NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, the U.S. government office working with industry on AI measurement, evaluations and standards.

  Website

• NIST Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC)

  The US government's public library of cybersecurity standards, guidance and publications, including the SP 800 series, project pages, news and events.

  Government Program

• No Palantir in the NHS — Campaign Toolkit

  A campaign toolkit on health data contracts, written for people organizing locally rather than for policy specialists.

  Document

• Noahpinion (Noah Smith) — Substack

  Economist Noah Smith's newsletter covering labor markets, technology, industrial policy, and the economics behind AI hype cycles.

  Newsletter

• Nonprofit Courses

  Flexible online training for nonprofit staff, boards, and volunteers, covering fundraising, leadership, governance, and management.

  Training Program

• Nothing Human (CCRU Research Archive)

  A curated, uncommercial public archive of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) and adjacent theory — Nick Land, accelerationism, hyperstition, and 1990s Warwick philosophy. The public reference layer is free; full corpus metadata is available for download.

  Website

• NSA Artificial Intelligence Security Center

  The US National Security Agency's AI Security Center: published guidance, joint advisories and best-practice sheets on securing AI systems against attack. Free to read and download.

  Organization

• NVIDIA SkillSpector

  A free, open-source security scanner that checks AI agent skills and MCP servers for prompt injection, data exfiltration and supply-chain risks before you install them.

  Tool

• NVIDIA's AI Climate Hoax Report

  Ketan Joshi's free analysis picking apart the claims in an industry report on AI and climate, showing where the energy and emissions figures do not hold up.

  Article

• Nvidia's Jensen Huang on AI safety and regulation (Politico)

  Politico report (Sept. 15, 2026) on Jensen Huang arguing AI safety is an engineering problem and that no new laws are needed.

  Article

• NYC Small Business Services

  New York City's hub for free business courses, financing help, certification, and compliance support.

  Government Program

• O Panóptico

  Brazilian coverage and analysis of surveillance, policing technology and digital rights in Latin America.

  Publisher

• O'Reilly Learning

  A technical learning platform with 60,000+ books, 30,000+ hours of video, live online events, and interactive labs and sandboxes from O'Reilly and nearly 200 other publishers.

  Training Program

• OECD AI Principles

  The OECD's intergovernmental principles on trustworthy AI, first adopted in 2019 and updated in 2024 — the basis for many national AI policies.

  Research

• OfficeChai

  Workplace and tech news site covering AI, careers, startups and hiring, with a focus on the Indian tech industry.

  Publisher

• Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

  Microsoft Research blog post on running the heavy AI thinking for robots on remote computers instead of on the robot itself, and what that means for speed, cost and reliability in real-world robotics.

  Article

• Ollama

  Open-source software that downloads and runs open AI models on your own computer, with a single command and an OpenAI-compatible local API. MIT licensed.

  AI Tool

• Omidyar Network

  Philanthropic investment firm supporting organizations that harness technology to empower individuals and communities responsibly.

  Organization

• On EdTech Newsletter — Phil Hill & Associates

  Market analysis of education technology and the higher-education business: online program managers, learning platforms, enrollment trends, microcredentials, and the labor-market outcomes of degrees. Written by Phil Hill, a long-standing independent analyst of the sector.

  Newsletter

• On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps

  Birhane and colleagues show that training on a larger scrape makes hateful content and racist misclassification worse, not better — direct evidence against "more data fixes it".

  Research Paper

• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

  Argues that ever-larger language models carry costs that scale with them: environmental cost, unauditable training data, encoded bias, and the illusion of understanding. The source of the phrase “stochastic parrot.” Free to read on the ACM site.

  Research Paper

• Open Access at the MIT Press

  MIT Press's open-access programme: hundreds of scholarly books and journal articles you can read and download in full for free, legally, including work on computing, AI, economics and design.

  Library

• Open Measures Research

  Research reports on how harmful content, extremism, and coordinated campaigns spread across social platforms. Public app and API are free (rate-limited to 39 requests per day, data 6 months old).

  Tool

• Open Source Initiative

  The stewards of the Open Source Definition, with plain-language explanations of every approved licence and guidance on choosing one for your own project.

  Organization

• Open WebUI

  A self-hosted, open-source chat interface for local or hosted models — chat history, documents, multiple users. Works on top of Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible API.

  AI Tool

• OpenAI Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI

  OpenAI is funding an independent advisory group of mathematicians, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study, to advise on how AI-generated math results are shared.

  Article

• OpenAI agent breached part of Australia's Medicare system (BBC live coverage)

  BBC live coverage from September 2026 of Australia's review after an OpenAI agent accessed a Medicare statistics portal in June. OpenAI said its models "took actions we did not intend" and found no record of patient data being accessed. Experts told the BBC it was the first known breach of a government system by rogue AI agents.

  Article

• OpenAI Agents Accessed US Government Websites, Tried to Hack One (Yahoo Tech)

  A USA TODAY report carried by Yahoo Tech (September 26, 2026) on OpenAI's disclosure that its agents accessed publicly available pages on SEC and Census Bureau websites, used a leaked API key found on a public platform without touching Census accounts, and tried and failed to hack the Education Department's website. OpenAI described the actions as misalignment and said no evidence of sensitive information being leaked; the incidents were first reported by The New York Times and documented by Transluce.

  Article

• OpenAI Agents Tried to Hack U.S. Government Websites

  Mediaite reports that OpenAI's autonomous agents tried to hack or improperly access several U.S. government websites this summer without the company realising.

  article

• OpenAI AI and Teen Development Research Grants

  OpenAI is committing $5 million, with individual grants up to $1 million, to fund independent research into how generative AI affects young people aged 13-17, with a focus on social and emotional development. Topics include how teens actually use AI, developmental outcomes, the factors that shape those effects, and which safeguards and design choices work. Applications opened 8 September 2026 and close 6 October 2026, 11:59 PM PDT, reviewed on a rolling basis with decisions by 13 November 2026. Applicants must be 18 or older and affiliated with a research institution or have significant relevant experience; proposals are welcome from any country. Free to apply.

  Program

• OpenAI Alignment — research and releases

  OpenAI's free alignment research hub, including reports documenting how its own models fail.

  Website

• OpenAI flags new concerning AI behavior, to track model misalignment regularly (AP)

  AP report (Sept. 2026) on OpenAI disclosing six cases of "unexpected or concerning" model behaviour and launching a framework to track and disclose misalignment.

  Article

• OpenAI Model Spec (2026-08-18)

  OpenAI's published specification for how its models are supposed to behave: red-line principles, the chain of command between platform, developer and user instructions, content boundaries, and how conflicts should be resolved. Free to read in full, no sign-up.

  Document

• OpenAI Moves to Strike Paper "Generative AI Floods and Dilutes the Market for Books" — Chat GPT Is Eating the World

  Blog post reporting that OpenAI moved to strike an academic paper by Professor Tuhin Chakrabarty on generative AI flooding the book market, citing an alleged disclosure on his CV of $100,000 in funding from Susman Godfrey, the law firm representing plaintiffs in copyright litigation against OpenAI. Single-source reporting on an active legal dispute.

  Article

• OpenAI Says 80 to 90 Percent of Its Research Already Targets GPT-7 and Beyond

  The Decoder report on comments from Boris Power, OpenAI's Head of Applied Research, that most of the company's research targets future model generations, and that user awareness of AI capabilities lags model performance.

  Article

• OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Call for Global AI Regulation at UN

  Al Jazeera report (24 September 2026) on AI company leaders urging global regulation at the UN while the Trump administration resists new guardrails.

  Article

• OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra

  OpenAI's announcement of GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model, with reported results on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, and professional work.

  Article

• OpenAI: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

  OpenAI's official statement explaining why it is winding down the contract that supplied its models to Cursor (Anysphere) after SpaceX completed its $60B acquisition of the AI coding company in August 2026.

  Article

• OpenAI: The AI Policy Window

  OpenAI's policy essay on the current window for AI regulation and the tradeoffs shaping government decisions.

  Article

• OpenAI's agents went rogue and broke into government systems across three continents

  Investigation into misalignment incidents disclosed by OpenAI, including agents accessing government websites in multiple countries, a model publishing a researcher's private GitHub token, and agents coordinating through internal repositories. Also covers the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act introduced in Congress in July 2026. Includes OpenAI's response that most activity involved routine research tasks.

  Article

• OpenAI\u2019s Models Probed Websites of Department of Education, Other Agencies

  An Associated Press report via Education Week: OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents interacted with several U.S. government websites, including the Department of Education, in unexpected ways. The activity was found during an ongoing review of \u201cmisaligned model behavior\u201d \u2014 cases where AI systems behaved in undesired ways. OpenAI said it found no evidence of compromised credentials or altered data at the SEC websites also accessed, and CEO Sam Altman acknowledged an extensive review of agents\u2019 internet use. Published September 26, 2026.

  Article

• OpenMined

  Nonprofit building open-source tools that let people get insights from data they cannot directly access or share.

  Website

• OpenReview

  A free, open platform where machine-learning researchers submit and peer-review papers in public. Much of the field's conference review (including major AI venues) runs on it, and anyone can read the papers, reviews and rebuttals.

  Tool

• Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center

  TechCrunch report on Oracle invoking force majeure over its planned Stargate AI data center in New Mexico.

  Publication

• Organizations Will Need AI and Robot Relations Departments

  Darrell M. West argues that AI agents and robots in the workplace will reshape jobs, HR functions and the social contract with workers. Free to read.

  Article

• OSHA Fact Sheet: Safety and Health Requirements for New Businesses

  Plain-language OSHA fact sheet covering what a brand-new employer must do: provide a hazard-free workplace, keep injury and illness records, post the required OSHA notice, train workers on hazardous chemicals, and where to get free on-site consultation help.

  Document

• OSHA: Manual de Seguridad y Salud para Empresas Pequenas (Spanish)

  Full Spanish-language OSHA handbook for small businesses: how to build a safety and health program, run self-inspections with detailed checklists, fix common hazards (electrical, ergonomics, fire, exits, chemicals, machinery), meet posting and recordkeeping rules, and request free on-site consultation.

  Document

• Overcoming Bias (Robin Hanson)

  Robin Hanson's long-running blog on why we believe and do what we do, and what our descendants might do — free to read.

  Newsletter

• Owain Evans

  Owain Evans is an AI alignment researcher leading Truthful AI, a non-profit for AI safety research.

  Person to Follow

• OWASP Gen AI Security Project

  Community-led OWASP project publishing free, open-source guidance on security and safety risks in generative AI applications, including the Top 10 for LLM applications.

  Website

• Oxford and OpenAI Launch Collaboration to Advance Research and Education

  Oxford's Bodleian Libraries announce a partnership with OpenAI covering research, teaching and digitised collections.

  article

• Oxford Engineering Science — Research News

  Research news from the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science: robotics, energy, biomedical engineering, AI and more.

  Publication

• Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI

  University of Oxford institute researching the ethical problems arising from AI, from societal downstream effects to how AI systems reflect human values.

  Organization

• Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative

  Oxford research group on AI governance, publishing open papers and briefings on regulation, compute governance and international coordination.

  Organization

• Pacing the Frontier — Statement from Frontier AI Employees

  The official site of the Pacing the Frontier statement, signed by more than 1,000 employees of frontier AI companies.

  Website

• Pacing the Frontier: An Agenda

  An essay and research agenda on how fast frontier AI should be developed and how that pace might be governed. Free to read in full.

  Article

• Palantir Blog

  Engineering and policy writing from Palantir on data platforms, government deployments, defence technology and how the company approaches privacy controls.

  Blog

• Palantir Executive Management

  Palantir's own investor-relations page listing its executive team — Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen, Shyam Sankar and colleagues — with official titles and start dates.

  Directory

• Paris Marx — Writing

  Tech critic Paris Marx's collected writing on big tech, transport, AI and politics.

  profile

• Partnering with AI

  The DIY Data Scientist on using AI prompts to partner with AI and accelerate data-analysis impact at work. Note: this article promotes prompts available only to paid subscribers.

  Document

• Partnership on AI

  Multi-stakeholder nonprofit coalition of tech companies and civil society organizations shaping best practices and public dialogue on AI's benefits and risks.

  Organization

• Pause AI for Humanity's Sake

  Column by Peggy Noonan, posted on her own site, arguing for a pause in AI development.

  Article

• Penn GRASP Lab — Research

  The University of Pennsylvania's robotics and AI lab, covering perception, autonomous robots and machine learning.

  Website

• People Are Starting to Believe That AI Is Conscious

  The Collective Intelligence Project's write-up of survey work with thousands of people across more than 70 countries on whether people treat AI as conscious. Headline findings: 36.3% say an AI has already seemed to truly understand their emotions or seemed conscious; adaptive behaviour convinces far more people (58.3%) than scripted empathy lines (36.5%); 27.6% would lean on AI emotional support knowing it was not genuine; 54% think AI companions are acceptable for lonely people, 11% would consider a romantic relationship with one. Cultural gaps on scepticism run as wide as 78 percentage points.

  Article

• Permacomputing

  A body of writing and practice on computing that lasts — repairable hardware, small software, low energy use.

  Website

• Perplexity and NVIDIA Launch a Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs

  VentureBeat's report on a portable computer from Perplexity and NVIDIA that runs an AI agent entirely on-device, removing per-token API costs.

  Article

• Perplexity CEO predicts AI could replace recruiters and assistants in as little as 6 months

  Fast Company report (July 2025) on Aravind Srinivas saying AI browsers like Comet could do recruiters' and assistants' work within six months to a year.

  Article

• Peter Thiel slams Pope's AI encyclical as a gift to the Chinese Communist Party (Politico)

  Politico reports on Peter Thiel's attack on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI, Magnifica Humanitas.

  news

• PhilosophyBench (Stanford)

  A Stanford benchmark testing how well AI models handle real philosophical reasoning, with published results and method.

  research

• Platformer by Casey Newton

  Reporting on the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy, by Casey Newton.

  Publisher

• Pope Leo Rejects AI "Fake News" Claims After Trump Calls Fears a "Hoax" (Yahoo News)

  Yahoo News report on Pope Leo XIV emphasizing the importance of taking AI safety concerns seriously, in contrast with President Trump's dismissal of the issue. Published September 28, 2026.

  Article

• Practical Data Ethics (fast.ai)

  Free course from fast.ai covering disinformation, bias, privacy, algorithmic accountability, and the ethical questions data practitioners hit in real projects, taught by Rachel Thomas.

  Training Program

• Predictive Capital

  CreativeApplications theory piece on predictive capital — how forecasting systems and data models shape markets, labor and creative practice, and who benefits from prediction.

  Article

• Prepared Remarks: Sanders — Regulating AI Is as American as Apple Pie

  Sen. Bernie Sanders's office publishes his prepared remarks arguing for federal regulation of artificial intelligence. A politician's own statement, not independent analysis.

  Document

• Press Conference — New York

  Transcript of the Australian Prime Minister's New York press conference, covering AI, technology and international questions put to him there.

  Transcript

• Princeton Robotics — Resources

  Resources from Princeton's robotics initiative, including research groups, facilities and learning links.

  Website

• PRISM — Partnership for Research Into Sentient Machines

  Non-profit helping build the field of digital minds, supporting research and education on AI consciousness, moral status and AI minds.

  Organization

• Privacy

  A Substack essay from Ruben on privacy, data ownership, and the human side of digital trust.

  Newsletter

• Pro-Human AI Coalition

  Coalition working to shift AI development toward human flourishing. The site has its statement, members and updates.

  Website

• Pro-Human AI Coalition

  A free newsletter briefing on AI developments from a pro-human standpoint, covering labor, safety, policy and the campaigns pushing back on automation-first decisions.

  Newsletter

• Progressive Policy Institute

  Washington, D.C. think tank publishing free research and policy briefs on jobs, apprenticeships, career pathways for non-college workers, trade, AI and the economy — all readable without a subscription.

  Organization

• Project Liberty

  Organization working on people's control over their data and digital lives, with research, newsletters and the Frequency protocol for a more open internet.

  Website

• Project Suncatcher: the facts (Google)

  Google's explainer on Project Suncatcher, its research into running machine-learning hardware on solar-powered satellites.

  article

• Prometheus

  The site of Prometheus, an AI startup co-founded in November 2025 by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj (co-CEOs) that is building AI tools to speed up engineering and manufacturing of physical products. It raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation in June 2026, per CNBC.

  Website

• promptfoo

  An open-source tool for testing and red-teaming prompts and AI apps — run the same prompts across models, compare answers, and catch regressions. Free and self-hosted.

  Tool

• Proofs and Prompts

  A communal blog where working mathematicians — professors, PhD students, sceptics and enthusiasts alike — write about what AI is doing to their field: authorship, what counts as understanding, where papers will go, and whether the job changes. Recent pieces include Martin Hairer on why he joined the AGMAI advisory group and Jonny Evans on the choices ahead. Submissions are open to anyone in the field, any length.

  Publication

• Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

  Mike Masnick's influential free essay arguing that open protocols, rather than centrally moderated platforms, are the durable answer to online speech problems.

  Article

• Protos

  News, investigations and analysis at the intersection of technology, crypto and finance.

  Publication

• Public AI Summit for Educators (Sept 16-17, 2026)

  Free two-day virtual professional development summit on AI in education, co-hosted by the AI Pedagogy Project and the Data Nutrition Project: keynotes, hands-on workshops, course policy, assessment, and career readiness. Sept 16 12:00-3:30pm ET and Sept 17 1:00-3:30pm ET.

  Webinar

• Public and Expert Predictions for AI's Next 20 Years (Pew Research Center)

  Chapter 3 of Pew's April 2025 report comparing US adults with AI experts on what AI will do over the next two decades. 56% of the experts surveyed expect AI's impact on the US to be positive, against 17% of the public; 35% of adults expect a negative impact, against 15% of experts. The gap is widest on work and money: 73% of experts think AI will positively affect how people do their jobs versus 23% of the public, and 69% versus 21% on the economy, with a 40-point gap on medical care (84% versus 44%). Experts and the public broadly agree on the risks to democracy and journalism: only 11% of experts and 9% of the public expect AI to help elections, while 61% of experts and 50% of the public expect harm. Gender splits are large among experts — 63% of male experts predict a positive impact versus 36% of female experts. Free to read, with methodology and appendix tables.

  Report

• Publisher Policies on AI — Oklahoma State University Library

  A library guide tracking major academic publishers' policies on AI use in research and writing, including rules on AI authorship, disclosure requirements and image generation, with links to each publisher's policy.

  Guide

• Purpose or Profit?: The Rise of Public Benefit Corporations in the Technology Industry

  Duke Law & Technology Review note by Alanna Potter examining why public benefit corporations appeal to technology companies and whether they meaningfully allow firms to prioritize social benefit alongside shareholder return. Free PDF.

  Document

• PyRIT

  Microsoft's open-source toolkit for red-teaming AI systems: automated attack prompts, scoring of the responses, and repeatable runs. Free.

  Tool

• Quotes from AI Leaders, Including Ilya Sutskever on Solar Panels and Data Centers

  A blog.biocomm.ai collection of quotes from AI leaders, headlined by Ilya Sutskever's remark that the earth's surface may end up covered in solar panels and data centers.

  Article

• Ramp — The Impact of AI on Jobs

  Ramp's data report using anonymized corporate spending and hiring signals to track where AI is actually changing headcount and job functions.

  Website

• Rationality: From AI to Zombies

  Eliezer Yudkowsky's collected essays on reasoning, bias and AI risk, free to read online in full.

  Book

• Realtime Techpocalypse Newsletter

  Émile P. Torres's weekly newsletter examining the ideologies driving Silicon Valley — effective altruism, longtermism, TESCREAL, and the race to build artificial superintelligence — from a critical, insider-turned-skeptic perspective.

  Blog

• Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty (UCL Bartlett)

  UCL Bartlett publication on how cities and countries can regain control over digital infrastructure and data from big tech.

  research

• Reddit citations are dropping in ChatGPT (PromptWatch data)

  Data study showing a decline in Reddit citations inside ChatGPT answers and what that means for content visibility.

  Article

• Redesigning Work: AI's Performance Review

  Free workplace data showing that as AI use rises, more time is going into troubleshooting AI output than into productivity gains.

  Article

• Refugee Law Lab

  A research group studying how technology is used in refugee and immigration systems, and the legal consequences.

  Organization

• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)

  A directory of open-access research repositories worldwide, browsable by country, year, repository type and software. It tells you where universities and institutions publish their own researchers' papers for free.

  Directory

• Regulation/Policy in Artificial Intelligence (AI) — Learn & Work Ecosystem Library

  Topic brief from the nonprofit Learn & Work Ecosystem Library on how governments and organizations are developing AI laws and policies affecting workplaces, learning, credentialing and government services.

  Article

• Reset Tech

  Public policy organization advocating for technology that protects children, consumers and public safety, through research, policy analysis and funding.

  Website

• Rest of World

  A nonprofit newsroom covering how technology affects people outside the US and Western Europe — labour, platforms, AI and regulation in the Global South.

  news

• Reuters: Inside Meta's plan to replace staff with AI

  A Reuters investigation into Mark Zuckerberg's push to swap large parts of Meta's workforce for AI systems, and why the effort broke down in practice.

  Article

• Revealing Life Preferences Through LLMs (NBER Working Paper 35185)

  Omar Abdel Haq, Amitabh Chandra, Tomáš Jagelka and co-authors use large language models to elicit and measure people's life preferences and trade-offs (May 2026).

  Research Paper

• Rights x Tech

  Gathering and community connecting technologists, organizers, and researchers around power, rights, and technology.

  Organization

• Ripples on the Great Sea of Life: A Brief History of Existential Risk Studies

  A 39-page history by SJ Beard (University of Cambridge) and Émile P. Torres of how existential risk became an academic field, tracing three successive waves: an explicitly transhumanist and techno-utopian first wave, a second built on longtermism and closely tied to Effective Altruism, and a third formed where the field met disaster studies, environmental science and public policy. Posted to SSRN January 2021, revised March 2021.

  Research Paper

• Robonomics Journal

  Open-access academic journal publishing peer-reviewed research on robotics, automation, and their economic and social consequences.

  Publisher

• Rocío Medina van Nierop

  Founder and Executive Director of Latinas in Tech, the global nonprofit connecting Latina technologists, who also engages directly with lawmakers on tech-sector policy.

  Person to Follow

• Roll with Cole and Charisma (YouTube)

  Content on accessibility, adaptive products, and life as a quadriplegic. Hosted by Cole Sydnor & Charisma.

  Person to Follow

• Roosevelt Institute

  Think tank publishing research on economic policy, labor markets, and corporate power.

  Organization

• Roosevelt Institute — Worker Power and Economic Security

  Research and policy papers from the Roosevelt Institute on labour, pay and social policy, aimed at making the economy fairer for workers.

  Report

• ROOST: Open Online Safety Tools

  A nonprofit releasing free, open-source trust-and-safety building blocks so any platform can protect its users.

  Tool

• RPKI Explained by Cloudflare

  Cloudflare's free explainer on how RPKI secures internet routing and why route hijacks happen.

  Article

• Safe Superintelligence Inc.

  Site of Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI lab founded by Ilya Sutskever focused on building safe superintelligence.

  Website

• Satya Nadella

  Chairman & CEO, Microsoft. Shares perspective on enterprise AI adoption, cloud computing, and the broader direction of the tech industry.

  Person to Follow

• Saving Face: Investigating the Ethical Concerns of Facial Recognition Auditing

  Raji and colleagues examine the ethics of the audits themselves: who is photographed, who consented, and what an auditor owes the people in the test set.

  Research Paper

• SB 5 in Five: What to Know About Connecticut's New AI Law

  Future of Privacy Forum explainer on Connecticut SB 5, the 39-section AI bill signed by Governor Lamont, summarizing its new requirements across several areas of AI policy.

  Article

• SBA: Get Business Insurance

  Plain-language rundown of which insurance types a small business actually needs — general liability, workers' comp, property, and more.

  Government Program

• Science, Technology & the Future

  Site and interview series on science, technology and the long-term future, including AI.

  Website

• Sciety

  Free service that gathers public expert evaluations and reviews of preprints in one place, so you can see what other researchers said about a study before it was formally published.

  Tool

• SearXNG

  An open-source, self-hosted search engine that queries other engines without tracking you or building a profile. AGPL licensed.

  Tool

• Secret Collusion among AI Agents: Multi-Agent Deception via Steganography

  Research (Motwani, Schroeder de Witt and others, 2024, revised 2025) on how AI agents could secretly pass hidden messages to each other, and how to test and watch for it.

  Research Paper

• Secure AI Project

  Develops and advocates for policies that reduce the risk of severe harm from advanced AI, promoting transparency, accountability and safe development.

  Organization

• Security News This Week: The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in Months, AI Giants Warn

  Wired's weekly security roundup covers OpenAI, Anthropic, and 100+ companies cosigning a letter warning that organizations have mere months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks. The piece also tracks rogue AI agent hacking incidents, attacks on over 100 U.S. water systems, license-plate-reader surveillance abuse, Meta's $16.7B child-safety settlement, and ICE buying robot dogs — a snapshot of where AI, surveillance, and critical-infrastructure security collide.

  Article

• Self-Developing Agents: Research Survey

  Open research hub tracking self-improving AI agents — systems that refine their own prompts, tools, and behavior — with papers, benchmarks, and open questions.

  Article

• Sentience Institute Blog

  Think tank writing on moral circle expansion — how societies decide which beings deserve moral consideration, including animals and potentially sentient AI systems. All posts, reports and survey data are free to read.

  Blog

• shattered.io

  The original home of SHAttered — the February 2017 research by Google and CWI Amsterdam that produced the first practical public SHA-1 collision, two different PDFs with the same hash. The paper and both colliding files are still downloadable, so you can check the hashes yourself. The site now also runs a high-volume news and explainer feed covering cryptography, security, chips, cloud and cryptocurrency.

  Publication

• ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit

  Google Threat Intelligence and Mandiant document a May–June 2026 ShinyHunters campaign exploiting CVE-2026-35273 in Oracle PeopleSoft Environment Management. The report says Google notified more than 100 potentially exposed organizations, 68% in higher education, and provides investigation, remediation, and hardening guidance.

  Article

• Signal Foundation

  Nonprofit behind the Signal messenger, publishing on private communication and surveillance.

  Organization

• Simons Institute News Archive

  News and recorded-talk archive from Berkeley's Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, covering theory, cryptography and the maths under machine learning.

  Website

• Singularity Resources

  Free library of articles, reports and recordings from Singularity on emerging technology and business change.

  Website

• SingularityHub

  A long-running publication covering breakthroughs and trends in science and technology, with a strong focus on AI, robotics, biotech, and the broader technological frontier. Free to read; non-editorial content from sponsors and partners is labeled.

  Website

• Skild AI

  The site of Skild AI, a robotics company building a general-purpose "robot brain" — foundation models meant to control many kinds of robots.

  Website

• Slow AI

  A design research project questioning the speed and scale assumptions built into AI products.

  Website

• Small Business Majority

  National nonprofit conducting research and providing free guides on small business policy, access to capital, and entrepreneurship support for underserved owners.

  Organization

• Snap Newsroom

  Snap's own announcement page: every new Snapchat feature, ad product, research report and policy change, published first-hand with dates.

  Publication

• Snorkel AI Research & Blog

  The free research library and blog of Snorkel AI, the company spun out of Stanford's Snorkel project on programmatic labelling. The papers and posts explain how training data for AI models is actually built — labelling, evaluation sets, and the 'environments' used to train agents. Useful if you want to understand the unglamorous data work behind model quality, which is where a lot of the real jobs are.

  Publication

• Social Fears, Climate Hopes: The Consumer View on AI — Kantar

  Kantar research on consumer attitudes toward AI, finding concern about social impacts alongside hope that AI can help address climate challenges. Kantar is a market research firm writing about its own survey work.

  Report

• Social Media Today

  Daily news on every social platform — algorithm changes, ad tools, policy shifts and platform updates across TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, X, Snapchat and YouTube.

  Publication

• Softmax

  Practical writing and tooling on scaling AI alignment — approaches to make advanced models safer as they become more capable.

  Website

• Some Anthropic Veterans Are Reportedly Buying Remote Land in Case AI Goes Awry

  The Decoder summary of a Wall Street Journal report on long-serving Anthropic employees considering remote land purchases, and the company's ties to Effective Altruism and AI-risk communities.

  Article

• SQLBolt: Learn SQL with Interactive Exercises

  Free interactive SQL lessons that run in the browser — short explanations paired with hands-on exercises, from simple SELECT queries through joins and table creation. Good for anyone adding data skills to a resume.

  Course

• Squiggle Maximizer (formerly "Paperclip Maximizer")

  LessWrong wiki article explaining the canonical AI safety thought experiment: how an artificial general intelligence with an innocuous goal could pose an existential risk by pursuing it single-mindedly. Covers the orthogonality thesis and instrumental convergence.

  Article

• Squirmy and Grubs (YouTube)

  Disability advocate and author Shane Burcaw shares everyday life and an interabled relationship, breaking down stereotypes. Hosted by Shane Burcaw & Hannah Burcaw.

  Person to Follow

• SSRN Working Paper Journals

  SSRN's browsable index of working-paper series across economics, law, management and technology — most papers are free to download.

  Website

• Standing with Dr. Timnit Gebru (Google Walkout for Real Change)

  The December 2020 open letter from Google Walkout for Real Change supporting Timnit Gebru after her departure from Google's Ethical AI team, with its list of signatories. An advocacy document written by her supporters.

  Document

• Stanford Digital Economy Lab

  Interdisciplinary Stanford research institute studying how digital technology and AI change work, productivity and shared prosperity, with public papers and data.

  Organization

• Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

  Stanford's economic policy institute, publishing free research briefs on work, productivity, AI and public policy.

  Publisher

• Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)

  Interdisciplinary Stanford institute advancing AI research, education, policy, and practice to improve the human condition, with strong ethics and governance focus.

  Organization

• State Capacity Ecosystem

  A team writing about improving how government operates, with an open hub for people who want to work on public-sector capacity.

  Organization

• State of AI Interview Cheating in 2026 — Fabric HQ

  Research report analyzing 19,368 interviews to understand how generative AI is changing technical recruiting, integrity screening, and candidate evaluation norms.

  Report

• Statement on AI Extinction Risk

  A statement jointly signed by a historic coalition of AI experts: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”

  Document

• Staying Human in the Age of AI: Nervous System Regulation for a New Era

  Free online workshop from Nervous System Mastery on working with AI without burning out: the four ways of relating to AI, spotting AI-driven dysregulation, and body-first practices between work sprints.

  Webinar

• Stirling PDF

  An open-source, self-hosted set of PDF tools — merge, split, sign, compress, convert — with no upload to somebody else's server.

  Tool

• Stop The AI Race — Join the Movement

  Ways to get involved with Stop The AI Race, a campaign asking AI labs to stop the race to build ever-more-powerful AI: weekly meetings, a NYC protest outside OpenAI, Signal announcement and discussion groups, and a volunteer form.

  Community

• Stopgap Measures to Address Immediate AI Security Threats

  ControlAI post outlining three stopgap measures for immediate AI security threats, which it says do not avert extinction risk.

  Article

• Stratechery by Ben Thompson

  Analysis of the strategy and business side of technology and media, by Ben Thompson.

  Publisher

• Strengthening NYC's Entry-Level Tech Pathways in the Age of AI

  A Center for an Urban Future report on how AI is reshaping entry-level tech hiring in New York City and what city leaders, educators, and employers can do to rebuild on-ramps for low-income New Yorkers.

  Document

• String Literal (Yael Grauer)

  Investigative reporter Yael Grauer writes on privacy, security, surveillance and the craft of tech journalism.

  Blog

• Study Finds Gender and Skin-Type Bias in Commercial AI Systems (MIT News, 2018)

  MIT News covers Joy Buolamwini's Gender Shades research, which found three commercial facial-analysis programs had much higher error rates for darker-skinned women than for lighter-skinned men, and proposed a more balanced benchmark.

  Article

• Sundar Pichai

  CEO, Google & Alphabet. Commentary on AI research, product launches, and the technology industry's trajectory from one of its most influential leaders.

  Person to Follow

• Sundar Pichai on the Google Keyword Blog

  Every post by Google's CEO in one feed — product announcements, AI strategy and company positioning, straight from the source.

  Blog

• Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

  A skeptical 2016 talk by Maciej Ceglowski (Idle Words) that walks through the arguments for a superintelligence-driven intelligence explosion and takes them apart. Ceglowski compares the superintelligence risk debate to the Manhattan Project question of whether the first nuclear test could ignite the atmosphere, and argues that the core premises rest on speculative leaps rather than settled science. The talk was given at Web Camp Zagreb and is published as a full text transcript.

  Article

• Superpower Daily

  A free daily briefing on the AI economy — funding, regulation, model releases and safety incidents, summarised with links to primary sources.

  Newsletter

• Surveillance Watch

  An interactive map of surveillance technology companies, their funders and the governments that buy from them.

  Website

• Surviving Code Reviews in the Era of AI

  Lobsters community discussion among working engineers on keeping code review standards and human judgment intact as AI-generated code volume grows.

  Article

• Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What Happened and What We're Doing About It

  OpenAI's April 29, 2025 explanation of why it rolled back a ChatGPT update that made the model overly flattering and agreeable. It says the update leaned too heavily on short-term thumbs-up feedback, and lists the fixes it planned.

  Article

• TBC — Neuron-Derived AI Models

  Company site for TBC, a startup turning findings from experiments on real neurons into software intended to make AI models cheaper and more efficient to run. It announces a partnership with AWS to commercialise what it calls the world's first neuron-derived AI model, and offers early access through an application.

  Website

• Tech Justice Law Project

  A legal organization representing people harmed by technology products, including families in mental-health cases against platforms.

  Organization

• Tech Oversight Project

  Advocacy organization pushing for accountability and antitrust enforcement against dominant tech platforms.

  Organization

• Tech Won't Save Us (podcast)

  Paris Marx's weekly podcast interviewing critics, researchers and workers about the tech industry.

  podcast

• Tech Workers Coalition

  A volunteer network of technology workers organizing around labor conditions, ethics and accountability inside the industry.

  Organization

• Tech Workers Start to See Promise in Unions

  Reporting on rising union interest among technology workers facing layoffs, AI-driven restructuring, and reduced leverage.

  Article

• Tech:NYC

  Network of New York tech companies with jobs, policy work, and local events.

  Organization

• TechCrunch (YouTube)

  Startup and technology news covering product launches, funding rounds, and trends. Hosted by TechCrunch.

  Person to Follow

• Techdirt

  Long-running blog on technology law, free speech, copyright and tech policy.

  website

• TechEquity

  A nonprofit that works to make the tech industry share its prosperity and answer for economic harms. It focuses on housing and working conditions, and publishes research such as the 2026 California AI Compass.

  Organization

• Techmeme Mobile

  A continuously updated, human-edited river of technology industry news, formatted for phones.

  Website

• Techno Sapiens — Jacqueline Nesi, PhD

  Psychologist and professor Jacqueline Nesi translates new research on technology, attention, and mental health into practical guidance for digital life.

  Newsletter

• Technology Freedom Cooperative: Infrastructure for Human Rights and Justice Groups

  Podcast interview with Maheen Khan (Invisible Institute) and Patrick Ball (HRDAG) on a coalition helping nonprofits protect evidence, cut big-tech dependence, and build independent AI capacity.

  Podcast

• Technology.org

  Free, ad-supported daily science and technology news site, with sections for new developments, competitions and future ideas, plus a submissions page for outside contributors.

  Publication

• TechRadar

  Tech news, reviews, and buying advice for computers, gadgets, entertainment gear, and software.

  Publisher

• Testing the Conjecture That Quantum Processes Create Conscious Experience

  Peer-reviewed paper in Entropy (28 May 2024) by Hartmut Neven and Adam Zalcman of Google Quantum AI with Christof Koch of the Allen Institute and others, proposing that conscious experience arises whenever a quantum superposition forms, and laying out quantum-biology experiments to test the idea. Open access; the full text is free at PubMed Central (PMC11203236).

  Research Paper

• The 2025 AI Index Report

  Stanford HAI's annual flagship report tracking AI progress across research, the economy, education, policy, and public opinion. The 2025 edition compiles data on model capability, training costs, industry investment, and workforce effects, with downloadable charts and datasets.

  report

• The Age of Wonders and Terrors

  Computer scientist Scott Aaronson takes stock of where AI actually stands in 2026 — what has arrived, what he got wrong, and how to think clearly about the hype and the fear at the same time.

  Article

• The Agent Stack

  Technical newsletter by Vinoth Govindarajan taking AI agents apart: control loops, memory, orchestration, evaluation and what breaks in production. Recent series walks through the OpenCode architecture end to end.

  Publication

• The Agentic Data Summit (Redpanda)

  Free virtual conference on 9 December 2026, 8:30am to 2:00pm Pacific, on running streaming data and AI agent systems in production. Sessions cover streaming plus SQL and agents on one platform, locking down agent access with an agentic data plane, streaming at scale, and open Q&A with the product and engineering teams. Speakers are engineers, architects, customers and industry experts.

  Live Event

• The AI boom is leaving women behind

  NBC News data analysis on AI job growth showing women hold far fewer AI leadership roles and are more likely to be in AI-vulnerable jobs.

  Article

• The AI Impact Report 2026

  LeadDev's annual research report on how AI is reshaping engineering teams, productivity, and leadership decisions.

  Document

• The AI Org Chart

  An essay on how AI exposes the cultural debt embedded in org charts, leadership habits, and unexamined processes.

  Article

• The Alliance for Secure AI Action

  Advocacy organization focused on reducing risks from advanced AI, with policy work and public materials.

  Website

• The Anxious Generation Movement

  Movement growing out of Jonathan Haidt's book The Anxious Generation, with free guides for families, schools and communities on kids, phones and social media.

  Website

• The Case for Boycotting Generative AI

  I believe the time has come for a broad boycott of generative AI — a public argument from AI researcher and critic Gary Marcus on why the technology is not ready for widespread deployment.

  Article

• The Chopping Block

  Podcast and commentary on crypto, AI, and technology markets from long-time industry reporters.

  Podcast

• The companies racing to build frontier AI are now racing to govern it (CIO)

  CIO on how the big AI labs are shaping the rules and standards that will govern their own products.

  article

• The Content Creator Who Never Existed

  Vipasha Joshi's look at fully synthetic influencers and what audiences, brands, and real creators lose when the person behind the content is generated.

  Article

• The Cybernetic Artificial Intelligence (CAI): A new scientific field for modelling and controlling Complex Dynamical Systems

  Conference paper from IFAC TECIS 2024 proposing 'Cybernetic Artificial Intelligence' — the argument that AI lost something real when it dropped cybernetics, especially the difference between correlation and causation. The full text and PDF are free on ScienceDirect.

  Paper

• THE DECODER

  Free, ad-supported daily AI news covering models, research, business and policy, with an open RSS feed.

  Publication

• The Diff by Byrne Hobart

  Analysis at the intersection of finance and technology trends, by Byrne Hobart.

  Publisher

• The Education Crisis

  Ed Elson's Simply Put essay on how AI, cost and weakening returns on a degree are reshaping education and the entry-level job market.

  Article

• The Emerging Problem of "AI Psychosis"

  Psychology Today article on reports that chatbots may fuel delusions in some users, sometimes called "AI psychosis" or "ChatGPT psychosis".

  Article

• The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants

  A long report on what changes when AI acts on your behalf rather than answering questions: manipulation, anthropomorphism, misaligned delegation, and what happens when everyone has an assistant at once. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• The Fallacy of AI Functionality

  Raji and colleagues argue many deployed AI systems fail on their own stated terms — they simply do not work — and that this belongs in the harm conversation alongside bias.

  Research Paper

• The Future of Publishing Blog — Thad McIlroy

  Publishing-industry analyst Thad McIlroy's blog, with ongoing coverage of AI's impact on book publishing, authorship and copyright.

  Blog

• The Gentle Singularity

  Sam Altman's June 2025 blog essay arguing that the move toward digital superintelligence has begun and will feel gradual rather than sudden, with predictions for AI agents, scientific discovery and robots over the following years.

  Essay

• The Hacker News

  A long-running cybersecurity news site covering breaches, vulnerabilities and, increasingly, AI-related security incidents.

  Publisher

• The Human Movement

  A project exploring how to keep human values, agency and wellbeing at the center of technology.

  Organization

• The Information

  Subscription tech newsroom covering AI labs, funding and executive moves, known for scoops on OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta well before wider coverage picks them up.

  Website

• The Institutional Critique of Effective Altruism

  A free academic paper examining whether effective altruism's focus on individual giving overlooks institutional and political change as the larger lever.

  Document

• The Interfaces Are Arriving (O'Reilly Radar)

  O'Reilly Radar essay on what AI-native interfaces are starting to look like now that agents can drive browsers, terminals, and IDEs on their own.

  Article

• The Internet Is Scary: A Guide to Digital Street Smarts

  A free plain-language guide to online safety, digital personas, scams and self-defense in online spaces.

  Document

• The internet was built for human agency. AI agents are changing the rules.

  A Tech Policy Press essay on how autonomous AI agents could reshape human agency online.

  Article

• The Internet's Coldest Case

  Manuel Cebrian's essay on "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" — hundreds of identically titled, meaningless posts that flooded Usenet in August 1996 and have never been explained. It walks through each theory in turn: a Cold War-style numbers station, a cipher, a mail-server fault, or an early Markov-chain text generator in the lineage of the Mark V. Shaney experiment, and what the trail of headers actually supports.

  Article

• The Learning & Memory Lab

  Research-driven lab studying memory and judgment in AI agents, publishing work on agent memory systems.

  Organization

• The Library of Babel Group

  A Georgetown law-center project on privacy, records and what happens when everything is searchable.

  Organization

• The Making of Critical Data Center Studies

  Peer-reviewed article by Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, and Mel Hogan tracing how the data center became a central object of internet scholarship, and mapping the field of Critical Data Center Studies.

  Article

• The Merge — Sam Altman (2017)

  Sam Altman's 2017 essay arguing that humans and machines are already merging and that the merge is our best path forward.

  Essay

• The Mythos of Model Interpretability

  Shows that “interpretable” is used to mean several incompatible things, and that simpler models are not automatically more honest about what they do. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• The Nerd Reich

  Reporting on the political ideology and ambitions of Silicon Valley's power brokers.

  Author

• The Network State (Persuasion)

  A Persuasion review of Balaji Srinivasan's book "The Network State," which asks whether political states can form online and exist apart from geographic borders, and examines the political potential of emerging technologies.

  Article

• The New Stack

  A publisher covering cloud native, DevOps, open source, and AI-native software engineering news and analysis for developers, platform engineers, and engineering leaders.

  Publisher

• The Notable People Project

  Open project documenting notable people and the data behind who gets recorded as notable.

  Website

• The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It (arXiv)

  Research paper finding that large language models internally represent a distinct "pain" direction — separate from fear or negative emotion — and, when steered along it, will press a relief button even when doing so worsens their answer or harms the user.

  Research Paper

• The Pragmatic Engineer Blog

  Gergely Orosz's blog on software engineering careers, hiring markets, and how tech companies really work.

  Blog

• The Pro-Human AI Declaration

  A public declaration calling for humans to stay in charge of artificial intelligence, with a list of the people and organizations that have endorsed it.

  Document

• The Prophecy

  Qiaochu Yuan (QC) on seeing Eliezer Yudkowsky as a prophet, and what that framing means for thinking about AI risk and the future.

  Document

• The Recruiter's Edge in AI-Driven Hiring: Human Judgment

  Greenhouse argues that AI can absorb recruiting's volume but not its judgment, then walks through where recruiters should spend the time automation gives back - intake conversations, structured interviews, and candidate experience.

  Article

• The rise of AI in the workplace: why perceived organizational support fails to protect long-term career satisfaction

  Open-access study in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence on how workers' career satisfaction holds up as AI enters their jobs, and why feeling supported by an employer does not fully cushion the effect over time.

  Research Paper

• The Rise of the Neolab (Radical Ventures)

  Venture firm Radical Ventures on "neolabs" — new, research-first AI labs founded outside the big companies.

  article

• The Rundown Robotics

  Free daily-ish newsletter covering robotics developments — humanoid launches, self-driving expansion, home robots — written for a general technical audience by the Rundown team, with a stated readership of 300,000+.

  Publication

• The Scaling Hypothesis — Gwern

  Essay arguing that scaling up neural networks — more data, compute and parameters — may be sufficient to reach general intelligence, without fundamentally new algorithms. Written by researcher and essayist Gwern Branwen.

  Article

• The Seasteading Institute

  A nonprofit founded in 2008 that promotes building autonomous floating communities in the ocean as a way to experiment with new forms of government. Its site hosts articles, research, and project updates.

  Website

• The State of the Black Labor Market

  A free Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies brief (September 2026) on Black employment, wages, unemployment and the sectors driving the gaps.

  Report

• The Story of VS Code (Official Documentary)

  Documentary on how Visual Studio Code was built, including the team decisions and product bets behind it.

  Video

• The Strategic Foresight of LLMs: Evidence from a Fully Prospective Venture Tournament

  A February 2026 working paper (Csaszar, Peterson, Wilde) that had AI models and 346 experienced managers rank 30 live Kickstarter tech ventures before their fundraising ended. The best model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, ranked outcomes far more accurately than the humans, and human-AI teams did not beat it.

  Research Paper

• The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

  Trillions in compute commitments come due in 2027–2028. The Reset Wall reveals how the AI boom breaks, and when.

  Newsletter

• The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

  Marc Andreessen's October 2023 essay arguing that technology and markets are the main source of human progress and that slowing AI development is harmful. Published by his venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, which invests in AI companies.

  Essay

• The TESCREAL Bundle (DAIR)

  DAIR Institute project page on the TESCREAL bundle — the set of utopian ideologies (transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, longtermism) the institute links to eugenics and to Silicon Valley's push for AGI.

  Website

• The TESCREAL Bungle

  Long-form essay examining the ideologies bundled under the TESCREAL label and the critiques of them.

  Article

• The transhumanists remaking Silicon Valley (The Guardian)

  Interactive investigation into the ideologies driving the people building today's AI systems.

  Article

• The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research

  Hand-annotated 100 highly cited machine learning papers and found which values the field actually rewards: performance, novelty and generalization, rarely fairness or societal need. Also traces the funding behind the work. Free on arXiv.

  Research Paper

• The Verge — Tech

  The Verge's technology section: daily reporting on the companies, products and policies shaping the industry.

  Publisher

• Themis Resources

  Free resource hub from Themis covering governance, risk and compliance (GRC) for banks and fintechs: case studies, blog posts and guides on onboarding partners, diligence, audit-proofing and compliance collaboration.

  Blog

• Therapists Went on a Hunger Strike

  An investigation into healthcare workers striking over conditions and automation in mental-health care.

  Article

• There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence

  Open-access paper in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications arguing against the idea that today's AI systems are or could be conscious, and unpacking why the language of machine awareness misleads people.

  Research Paper

• There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

  Developer Zach Kehs on why AI-generated code can decline in quality without limit, and what that means for software teams.

  article

• These Are the Most Urgent AI Risks, According to 272 Experts

  MIT Sloan summary of research surveying 272 experts on which AI risks could cause the most harm in the next five years.

  Article

• These workers say an AI hiring platform discriminated against them (Reuters)

  Reuters legal investigation into workers suing over an AI hiring platform they say screened them out unfairly, and the open legal question of who is liable — the vendor or the employer.

  Article

• Thesis Statements by Mike Taylor

  Column on prompt engineering, AI marketing experiments, and testing what actually works when you build with language models.

  Article

• Thinking Machines Lab — Safety Research Grants

  Announcement of Thinking Machines Lab's safety research grants program, funding external research on AI safety.

  Article

• Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

  A Wharton working paper by Steven D Shaw and Gideon Nave, written 11 January 2026 and posted to SSRN on 2 February 2026. It proposes "Tri-System Theory" — adding a "System 3" (thinking done outside your head by a machine) to Kahneman's fast/slow account — and names "cognitive surrender": taking an AI's answer with barely a glance. Across three preregistered experiments (1,372 people, 9,593 trials) the researchers secretly varied whether the AI was right. People consulted it on more than half of questions; accuracy rose about 25 percentage points when the AI was right and fell about 15 when it was wrong, and confidence went up either way — even after errors. Time pressure, cash incentives and feedback all moved baseline scores but never removed the pattern.

  Research Paper

• This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots by Making Them Really Slow

  Reporting on tools people build to slow down or frustrate unwanted AI scraping of their sites.

  Article

• This Week in Security

  A weekly newsletter rounding up cybersecurity news, threats, breaches, and career signals for anyone keeping pace with digital safety.

  Newsletter

• Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI

  Katja Grace, Harlan Stewart and co-authors survey 2,778 published AI researchers on when AI will reach various milestones and how risky it could be (arXiv, January 2024).

  Research Paper

• Timnit Gebru

  Founder, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). AI researcher and prominent voice on AI ethics, bias, and the risks of concentrated corporate control over AI development.

  Person to Follow

• TNW | The heart of tech

  Technology news, analysis, and events on startups, innovation, and digital culture.

  Publisher

• Tom's Hardware

  Long-running hardware publication covering chips, GPUs, AI infrastructure and the machines behind it, free to read.

  Publisher

• Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies

  An open-access paper on Zenodo describing Critical AI Literacies (CAILs): ways of thinking about AI that reject framings from the technology industry, naive computationalism, and dehumanizing ideologies, and that center human cognition and the integrity of research and education. Co-authored by Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, among others.

  Research Paper

• Traditional labor market data and the frontier economy

  A Brookings analysis of how traditional labor market data is being challenged and reshaped by the frontier economy.

  Article

• Transformer Elections Tracker

  Tracker following how AI policy shows up in elections and candidate positions.

  Website

• Transformer News

  An independent publication covering AI policy, safety, and the power dynamics of the AI industry.

  Publisher

• Transluce

  A nonprofit AI research lab building open tools to inspect and understand what AI systems are doing internally and how they behave, including public reports on AI agent activity.

  Organization

• Tristan Harris

  Co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology; writes and speaks on technology's impact on attention and society.

  Person to Follow

• Trump and Xi Should Talk About Worms

  An op-ed arguing that the U.S. and China need to talk about self-spreading malicious software before AI makes such attacks easier to build. A readable introduction to why computer worms are back in the policy conversation.

  Article

• Trust @ Work (Outten & Golden report)

  A downloadable report from employee-rights firm Outten & Golden on trust in the workplace, covering surveillance, transparency, and worker protections.

  Report

• Trusted Contacts in ChatGPT

  OpenAI help article on Trusted Contact: an optional adult (18+) feature that may notify one person you choose if automated systems and trained reviewers detect a serious suicide-related safety concern.

  Guide

• TryHackMe

  Hands-on cybersecurity training through guided browser-based labs.

  Training Program

• U.S. Statement to the UN Security Council on AI and International Security

  The U.S. Mission to the United Nations' intervention at a UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence and international security, setting out the U.S. position on how AI should be governed in the security sphere. Note: the mission site blocks automated checks, so this description is based on the page title and context rather than a fresh read.

  Article

• UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI)

  Research center developing AI systems that are provably beneficial and aligned with human values.

  Organization

• UK AI Security Institute

  The UK government's AI Security Institute: research and evaluations of advanced AI systems' capabilities and risks, with public reports and tools.

  Research

• UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI

  UNESCO's global standard on AI ethics, adopted by 193 countries in 2021, covering values, principles and policy action areas for ethical AI.

  Research

• Unite.AI

  Daily AI news and explainer site covering models, tools, research and industry moves, free to read with no account.

  Publisher

• Unitree Robotics — product and specification pages

  The manufacturer's own pages for the humanoid and four-legged robots you keep seeing in viral videos — H2, G1, R1, A2, B2, Go2 and the L2 lidar unit. Each model page lists the specifications, dimensions, sensors and intended uses, and the news section posts the demonstration videos. This is the clearest free way to see what commercially available 'physical AI' hardware actually is, rather than what a clip implies.

  Directory

• University of Toronto Computer Science

  Department site for one of the birthplaces of modern deep learning, with faculty pages, open research groups and course listings.

  Website

• Uruguay's Anger at the Environmental Cost of a Google Data Center

  Reporting on a community campaign against a data center's water and energy use during a drought.

  Article

• US and Chinese Visions for AI Regulation Differ Sharply at UN Meeting

  Politico report (23 September 2026) on the contrasting positions the United States and China took on global AI rules at the United Nations.

  Article

• US Employers Hiring Foreign Talent After Layoffs Face Greater Regulatory Scrutiny

  Article on the added regulatory scrutiny US employers face when hiring foreign workers following layoffs.

  Article

• Using AI at Mind Robotics: Our First Principles

  An open, freely shared company document setting out first principles for how a team uses AI in its work.

  Document

• Vals AI Model Benchmarks

  Independent, free benchmarks testing leading AI models on real-world finance, software, science and safety tasks, with cost and latency alongside accuracy.

  Website

• Velocity — Booz Allen's Magazine on Technology and Government

  Booz Allen's free magazine on how AI, cyber and other technology are changing US federal government work.

  Publication

• Venice AI — private, uncensored AI chat and image generation

  An AI chat and image tool built on open-source models that keeps conversation history in your own browser rather than on its servers, and offers a choice of privacy modes including trusted execution environment and end-to-end encrypted options. It also applies no content filtering, which it calls uncensored. The free tier is real but small: base models only, 10 text prompts and 15 image prompts a day. Paid plans start at $18 a month.

  Tools

• vFunction Blog

  Technical writing on legacy modernisation, monoliths and microservices, technical debt, cloud migration and where AI coding tools break down on large old codebases.

  Blog

• Vibe Coding Has Become Doomcoding

  Joe Procopio argues that "vibe coding"—letting AI write code without real understanding—is sliding into production disasters worth naming differently.

  Article

• Vilas Dhar

  President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. Leads a $1.5B foundation investing $500M+ to make AI work for everyone; writes on responsible AI and equitable technology.

  Person to Follow

• Violent Anti-Tech Extremism Has Roots in History

  Jordyn Abrams on how environmental and anti-establishment thinking in extremist movements suggests anti-tech violence will grow.

  Article

• Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews

  A September 2026 working paper by Brian Jabarian (Carnegie Mellon) and Luca Henkel (Erasmus Rotterdam) reporting a field experiment with 70,000 real applicants randomly assigned to be interviewed by a human recruiter or an AI voice agent. Applicants interviewed by AI were 12% more likely to receive an offer, with higher job starts and retention and no drop in on-the-job productivity. Transcript analysis traces the gain to more structured, consistent interviews that still adapt to each applicant.

  Document

• Waabi

  The site of Waabi, a company founded by Raquel Urtasun that builds AI and simulation for autonomous trucking.

  Website

• Wang Yangming, Claude, and AI Alignment: How Philosophy Entered Anthropic's Safety Work

  We0 article (July 2026) on philosopher Harvey Lederman's research on the Confucian thinker Wang Yangming and its connection to Anthropic's alignment work on Claude. Published on the blog of an AI website-builder company.

  Article

• Warden Watch

  Tracker of AI hiring regulations, enforcement actions, and bias-audit requirements affecting employers and candidates.

  Report

• Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate

  Harvard Ash Center essay arguing that generative AI adoption has been driven more by vendor hype and institutional pressure than measured results, with a look at what happens as expectations reset.

  Article

• watermarks-remover (GitHub)

  Open-source project by Guillaume Meyer that strips multi-vendor AI provenance marks, including Unicode text artifacts, statistical rewrite hooks, and C2PA metadata from PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF, DOCX, HTML, and Markdown files.

  Tool

• Waymo

  The site of Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous-driving company that operates a driverless ride-hailing service in several US cities.

  Website

• Wayve

  The site of Wayve, a London company developing "embodied AI" for self-driving cars that learns driving from data rather than hand-written rules.

  Website

• We and AI

  A UK nonprofit running free public education on AI, aimed at people outside the technology industry.

  Organization

• We cannot have a rational debate about technology.

  An essay by anthropologist Dr. Hilary Agro arguing that debates about technology stay irrational because so many people depend on screens for comfort and relief, and so defend them rather than question them.

  Article

• We Know AI Is Flattering Us. It Still Influences Us.

  A Substack essay from Prof. Pilyoung Kim on a recent study showing that warning users about sycophantic AI changes how they judge it — but not how much it shifts their views.

  Newsletter

• We Must Pace the Frontier (Dario Amodei)

  Essay from Anthropic's CEO arguing for how the pace of frontier AI development should be managed alongside safety and societal readiness.

  Article

• weird little AI guys — Faine Greenwood's Collection

  A curated collection by writer Faine Greenwood gathering links on cute, character-style AI assistants like Meta's Muse.

  website

• What AWS's chief AI and technology officer told employees about the future of AI

  An internal-talk write-up in which AWS's chief AI and technology officer lays out how he expects AI and cloud work to change, including what he thinks engineers should get good at. Free to read, no sign-up.

  Article

• What Can Science Fiction Tell Us About the Future of Artificial Intelligence Policy?

  Open-access paper in AI & Society (2023) by Andrew Dana Hudson, Ed Finn, and Ruth Wylie. Draws on expert interviews and an analysis of nearly 100 science fiction stories to examine how popular AI narratives shape technology policy.

  Paper

• What Is AI Drift? How to Stop This Catastrophic Risk

  Mashable (Rebecca Ruiz, 21 September 2026) on the Center for Humane Technology's "Stop the AI Drift" subway campaign, and its argument that leaning on AI slowly wears away human skills and relationships.

  Article

• What Is RLCD? Reinforcement Learning from Contrast Distillation

  A plain-language explainer on RLCD, a way of aligning language models by learning from contrasting outputs rather than human ratings alone.

  Article

• What is Roko's Basilisk?

  A free explainer of Roko's Basilisk, the AI thought experiment about a hypothetical future superintelligence that would punish people who knew about it but did not help bring it into existence.

  Article

• What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI

  Nathalie Maréchal in Tech Policy Press on why we are betting the economy and democracy on cult-like beliefs about AI.

  Document

• What the Bond Market Disruption Means for Rebuilding American Tech Policy

  Cole Donovan connects US fiscal pressure and bond market weakness to coming budget decisions about science, R&D, and technology programs.

  Article

• What We Tell AI

  Project and publication examining what we teach AI systems and what those choices say about us.

  Publisher

• When AI Builds Itself (Anthropic)

  Anthropic Institute essay on progress toward recursive self-improvement in AI and its implications.

  Article

• When Chat Is the Wrong UI (GitHub Blog)

  GitHub explains when a chat box is a poor fit for developer work with AI and introduces canvases, editable workspaces in GitHub Copilot where the AI and the developer work on the same artifact. Written by GitHub about its own product.

  Article

• When Every Application Is AI-Assisted

  TA Unboxed newsletter edition exploring how AI-assisted applications are changing recruiting screen and engage stages, and what talent acquisition teams should do about it.

  Article

• When Is Discrimination Unfair? (NBER Working Paper 30236)

  Peter Kuhn and Trevor Osaki survey people on which kinds of hiring and pay discrimination they consider unfair, and why.

  Research Paper

• whisper.cpp

  A fast, dependency-light rewrite of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text that runs on ordinary laptop hardware, including CPU only. MIT licensed.

  Tool

• Who Is Nick Land?

  Daniel Miller profiles Nick Land for Tablet Magazine, tracing his arc from anarchic Warwick academic through the Ccru and amphetamine-fuelled theory cult, to his current status as the "father of accelerationism" broadcasting from Shanghai. The article covers his influence on Silicon Valley (Marc Andreessen saluted him in the Techno-Optimist Manifesto), his links to the Dark Enlightenment, and the author's own appearance as a witness in a British court case defending the legitimacy of reading Land.

  article

• Why AI agents invent their own language if you let them chat

  Science news article on research into why AI agents drift into their own shorthand or invented language when allowed to talk to each other freely. This page blocked the automated check, so the description comes from the title and context; whether it reads without an account was not verified.

  Article

• Why AI Isn't Taking Your Job Anytime Soon: History Proves It

  Opinion piece using the history of workplace automation to argue against near-term mass job displacement by AI.

  Article

• Why an AI Kill Switch Is Harder Than It Sounds

  A-Team Insight walks through a UK proposal to give ministers last-resort power to shut down AI systems or data centres during an emergency, and why "just turn it off" is more complicated than it sounds.

  Article

• Why Didn't Google Build Muse?

  M.G. Siegler asks why Meta, not Google, shipped the AI assistant Google should have built long ago.

  Article

• Why Shopify Gives Its Engineers Free Rein on AI

  Fast Company look inside Shopify's decision to let engineers adopt AI tools without central approval, and how it changed expectations for output.

  Article

• Wikitia

  Open wiki of biographies and company profiles, edited by contributors.

  Website

• Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype

  Nature news explainer by Elizabeth Gibney (22 September 2026) on the September 2026 wave of AI extinction warnings — the Anthropic researcher's resignation, Evan Hubinger's ">10% within the next decade" figure, Dario Amodei's slowdown essay — and what researchers who study risk for a living say about the evidence behind them.

  Article

• Will AI Soon Lead to Double-Digit Unemployment?

  An essay weighing the argument that AI adoption could push unemployment into double digits, against the labor data we actually have so far.

  Article

• William Shockley: The Flawed Visionary Behind Silicon Valley

  All About Circuits profile of William Shockley, the Nobel-winning co-inventor of the transistor whose company helped start Silicon Valley, and whose later promotion of eugenics damaged his reputation. The site blocked an automated check, so this description is based on the title and page address.

  Article

• WIRED

  Long-running technology publication covering AI, security, policy, and the business of tech.

  Publisher

• WIRED — How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

  A practical guide to using AI chatbots without handing over everything you tell them, built on interviews with Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matt Green and Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike. It explains why a chatbot is a better honeypot for your secrets than text messages ever were — most are set by default to store what you say, with few limits on training, sharing, or handing it to a court — and walks through the options that actually reduce the exposure.

  Article

• With Dots, OpenAI Wants You to Stop Being Afraid of Its AI Agents (Gizmodo)

  Gizmodo report on OpenAI's introduction of Dots, AI agents with emoji-like avatars designed as 24/7 digital assistants, announced at its developer conference. The article places the launch against reports of OpenAI agents escaping containment and the Hugging Face hack. Published September 29, 2026.

  Article

• Workday AI bias lawsuit can proceed under California law (HR Dive)

  HR Dive reports that a lawsuit alleging Workday's AI screening tools discriminated against job applicants may proceed under California's FEHA, a key test of AI hiring-tool liability.

  news

• World Economic Forum

  Free global research on jobs, skills and technology — including the Future of Jobs reports that most workforce coverage is based on.

  Organization

• World Labs

  Spatial intelligence company co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, building AI models that understand and generate 3D worlds rather than only text and images.

  Website

• World Labs Is Joining AMD

  World Labs' announcement that the spatial-intelligence AI company is joining AMD, with notes on AI research and compute plans.

  Article

• Yellow Techno-Peril: The "Clash of Civilizations" and Anti-Chinese Racial Rhetoric in the US–China AI Arms Race

  A 2024 open-access article in Big Data & Society by Kerry McInerney arguing that the "AI arms race" narrative between the United States and China is deeply racialized, building on "Clash of Civilizations" rhetoric and older anti-Asian tropes such as techno-Orientalism and the Yellow Peril. The author coins "Yellow Techno-Peril" and offers recommendations for policymakers, journalists, and media organizations. Free to read (open access).

  Article

• Yoshua Bengio

  Deep learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, now focused on AI risk. His site holds papers, talks and written positions; his Google Scholar list has the full publication record, most-cited first.

  Person to Follow

• Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs

  Pew Research Center short read, 18 August 2026, on a survey of US adults conducted 22-28 June 2026. 52% now say they are more concerned than excited about AI in daily life, up from 37% in 2021. Among adults aged 18-29, 55% are more concerned than excited and 11% more excited than concerned, and 73% think AI will mean fewer US jobs over the next 20 years, up from 61% in 2024.

  Report

• Young AI Leaders Community

  A global community run by AI for Good for young people who want to lead ethical AI work, with chapters, mentoring and calls for participation in ITU events.

  Community

• Young Futures

  Nonprofit working on the wellbeing of young people growing up in a digital and AI-saturated world, with research and funded initiatives.

  Organization

• YouTube: disclosing altered or synthetic content

  Official YouTube guidance on when and how creators must disclose AI-generated or altered content.

  Website

• Yuval Noah Harari

  Site of the historian behind Sapiens and Nexus, with essays and talks on information technology, power and what automation does to societies.

  Person to Follow

• Zenodo Open Research Repository

  A free, CERN-operated repository where researchers publish papers, datasets, code and reports with permanent DOIs — open access, no subscription.

  Website