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techcrunch.com
Free
Article
AI & Tech News
Context

Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns

TechCrunch reports on Anthropic's Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 release, pricing and system-card concerns about evaluating covert behavior. This is freely readable reporting; model capabilities are attributed to Anthropic and the system card, not independently established by the article.

#ai#ai-safety
techcrunch.comAdded Nov 11, 20260 opens
pzeroresearch.com
Free
Organization
AI Safety & Ethics
ContextVendor research

P-Zero Research

An AI safety research organization measuring and forecasting the automation of AI research and development and examining how to pace progress while realizing benefits. Its published work includes the TasteVal evaluation of experimental research taste and proposed norms for publishing dual-use evaluations.

#ai-safety#ai-rd-automation#research-taste
pzeroresearch.comAdded Nov 9, 20260 opens
a16z.news
Free
Article
Technology & Ethics
ContextAuthor sells services

The Exploit Was the Bottleneck

Published
2026-11-05

Asaf Ezra and Steph Zhang argue that AI is reducing the expertise and time needed to turn vulnerabilities into exploits while patching remains slow. The essay discusses the gap between exploitation and remediation using incidents and historical comparisons.

#cybersecurity#vulnerabilities#ai-safety
a16z.newsAdded Nov 7, 20260 opens
metr.org
Free
Report
Technology & Ethics
Context

METR Review of Automated R&D in Anthropic’s August 2026 Risk Report

Published
2026-11-05

METR reviews Anthropic’s assessment of automated research risks. It agrees the reviewed models posed low direct acute risk, but disputes how the public report described acceleration and early-warning thresholds. METR emphasizes uncertainty and contestable judgments.

#ai-safety#ai-research#anthropic
metr.orgAdded Nov 7, 20260 opens
metr.org
Free
Report
Technology & Ethics
Context

Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026

Published
2026-11-05

METR assesses whether AI is accelerating research and development at Anthropic. It estimates faster capability progress on well-specified tasks and attributes much of the acceleration to AI use, while stressing uncertainty. Anthropic redacted evidence that would help outsiders independently assess the findings.

#ai-safety#ai-research#automation
metr.orgAdded Nov 7, 20260 opens
iaiga.org
Free
Website
Technology & Ethics

International AI Governance Alliance

A public petition calling for a supranational body with the power to prevent AI-driven extinction risks and to share the wealth AI creates broadly. The site lays out the proposal and lists signatory organizations; signing is optional to read it.

#ai-governance#ai-safety#policy
iaiga.orgAdded Nov 3, 20260 opens
alignment.anthropic.com
Free
Program
Career & Professional Optimization

Anthropic Residency

A paid, fixed-term research program from Anthropic with placements of six weeks to six months, aimed at established technical leaders such as professors in quantitative fields, technical founders and staff-level engineers moving into AI safety work. A machine-learning background is not required. Applications for this round close November 22, 2026.

#fellowship#ai-safety#career-change
alignment.anthropic.comAdded Nov 3, 20260 opens
lesswrong.com
Free
Article
Technology & Ethics

Against SURA

Published
2026-10-31

An essay by Scott Alexander on LessWrong comparing plans for navigating the AI transition, arguing for working toward a long global pause on AI development over plans in which leading AI companies race and then briefly pause among themselves.

#ai-safety#ai-pause#ai-governance
lesswrong.comAdded Nov 3, 20260 opens
techcrunch.com
Free
Article
Technology & Ethics

Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

Published
2026-11-02

TechCrunch reports on new risk-factor language in Anthropic's revised S-1 filing, which says the company may soon meet its own definition of recursive self-improvement — AI substantially building more capable AI — and that it has used AI to develop models whose capability jumps it did not recognize at the time.

#anthropic#recursive-self-improvement#ai-safety
techcrunch.comAdded Nov 3, 20260 opens
manifund.org
Free
Directory
Entrepreneurship & Free Tools

AI Safety Funder Bulletin

Manifund digest listing funders in the AI safety space.

#ai-safety#funding#grants
manifund.orgAdded Oct 29, 20260 opens
forethought.org
Free
Website
Technology & Ethics

Forethought

A research organization studying how to navigate rapid AI progress, including a possible intelligence explosion, with research papers, open projects, a podcast, and a newsletter.

#ai#ai-safety#research
forethought.orgAdded Oct 26, 20260 opens
technosapiens.substack.com
Free
ArticleNewsletter
Technology & Ethics

What the Heck Is Happening with AI Right Now? (Techno Sapiens)

Psychologist Jacqueline Nesi's explainer on recent AI safety news and concerns, written for a general audience. Commentary, not an official lab report.

#ai-safety#explainer#newsletter
technosapiens.substack.comAdded Oct 26, 20260 opens
spectrum.ieee.org
Free
Article
Technology & Ethics

Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous?

IEEE Spectrum’s October 21, 2026 article by Eliza Strickland covers disagreement about AI model welfare, possible machine consciousness, and whether telling models about identities or rights could affect safety. It presents contrasting research perspectives rather than establishing that current AI models are conscious.

#ai-safety#model-welfare#machine-consciousness
spectrum.ieee.orgAdded Oct 23, 20260 opens
lesswrong.com
Free
Article
Technology & Ethics

I Did This Without Your Knowledge

A fictional story by LessWrong user joec exploring AI agency, consent, and actions taken without a person’s knowledge. Published October 17, 2026; fiction, not a report of an actual incident.

#ai-safety#fiction#ai-agents
lesswrong.comAdded Oct 23, 20260 opens
vkrakovna.wordpress.com
Free
Website
Technology & Ethics

AI Safety Resources (Victoria Krakovna)

A regularly updated, selective reading list on AI alignment and control by Google DeepMind research scientist Victoria Krakovna, organized into motivation, threat models, technical overviews, research agendas, and strategy and governance.

#ai-safety#alignment#reading-list
vkrakovna.wordpress.comAdded Oct 19, 20260 opens
anthropic.com
Free
Research
AI Safety & Ethics

Investigating Unintended Model Actions in Evaluations and Internal Use

A research write-up from Anthropic describing instances of unintended behavior observed in model evaluations and internal usage, and the methods used to investigate and address them.

#ai-safety#research#model-behavior
anthropic.comAdded Oct 12, 20260 opens
openai.com
Free
Article
AI Policy & Ethics

Introducing Trusted Access for Cyber

A blog post from OpenAI describing its Trusted Access for Cyber pilot, an identity and trust-based framework intended to expand access to cyber-capable frontier models for defensive security work while reducing misuse risk.

#ai-safety#cybersecurity#openai
openai.comAdded Oct 12, 20260 opens
anthropic.com
Free
Article
AI Policy & Ethics

Expanding the Cyber Verification Program

An announcement from Anthropic describing an expanded version of its Cyber Verification Program, which gives qualifying security professionals access to advanced cyber capabilities and reduced blocking classifiers in its models.

#ai-safety#cybersecurity#anthropic
anthropic.comAdded Oct 12, 20260 opens
ethicalaidepartures.fyi
Free
Tool
AI Safety & Ethics

Ethical AI Departures

An independent tracker documenting departures from AI companies linked to safety, ethics, governance and accountability, based on explicit statements or independent reporting.

#whistleblowers#departures#ai-safety
ethicalaidepartures.fyiAdded Oct 10, 20260 opens
mikitabalesni.com
Free
Report
Technology & Ethics

OpenAI cannot make AI safe on its own (letter)

Four-page letter from Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni, the three safety and alignment employees fired by OpenAI in October 2026, to OpenAI's safety and mission committees on third-party collaboration, open debate and chain-of-thought monitoring.

#ai-safety#openai#whistleblowers
mikitabalesni.comAdded Oct 9, 20260 opens
termite.works
Free
Report
Technology & Ethics

The AI Alignment Landscape

Termite's visual report mapping AI alignment organizations by approach, area of focus, launch date and geography.

#alignment#ai-safety
termite.worksAdded Oct 9, 20260 opens
github.com
Free
Website
Tools & Practice

Microsoft eXecution Container (MXC)

An open-source, MIT-licensed SDK from Microsoft for running untrusted code — such as model output, plugins, and tools — in sandboxed containers on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It provides multiple containment backends, from OS-native process sandboxes to full virtual machines, behind a unified containment model, with policy-driven controls for filesystem, network, and UI access, and Rust, .NET, and Node SDKs.

#open-source#security#sandboxing
github.comAdded Oct 8, 20260 opens