Jaan Tallinn
Skype co-founder · AI safety investor and advocate
Estonian programmer and investor who helped build Skype and Kazaa, then became an early DeepMind investor and a leading funder of AI safety work. Co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge and the Future of Life Institute.
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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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