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.
Why I recommend it: The clearest free place to find out what people mean when they talk about AI risk, written so you can follow it without a technical background. Be clear about what it is: this is advocacy, not a neutral survey of the debate. The homepage opens with 'it could lead to human extinction', and the whole site is built by people who already hold that view, so you will get their strongest arguments rather than the strongest objections to them. Their own chatbot warns it can be inaccurate — check its sources before repeating anything. Read it to understand the case, then read the critics of it, and pair it with the AI Basics page here for the numbers.
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.
From the site: I probed Jev with 10,000 API calls to work out roughly how it’s built, and why most of the grifter takes on X are completely wrong.
Why I recommend it: Free to read in full. A good example of testing a claim yourself instead of repeating hot takes — useful if you want to sound informed about new models without overstating what is actually known. The conclusions are the author's inferences, not confirmed by the model's makers.
Tiffany Teasley explains retrieval-augmented generation without the jargon: how an AI model looks things up in your own documents before answering, and why that matters for accuracy.
Why I recommend it: If you can explain RAG in one sentence in an interview, you already sound more current than most candidates.
