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Everything worth reading about AI and human control. In one place.

Research papers, investigations, explainers, videos, laws and the organizations doing the work, from people who are alarmed and people who are skeptical. New additions are checked by two people before they are listed. The launch collection was compiled with the help of AI research assistants, and every link was opened and checked on 22 September 2026.

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ArticleAug 7, 2026For the curious

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Simon Willison · simonwillison.net

A short, readable timeline drawn from OpenAI's Black Hat talk, from agents' first file-sharing trick in May to OpenAI realising in July that its own models were behind the Hugging Face breach.

Worth knowing: Summarises OpenAI's own presentation.

ArticleApr 21, 2020For the curious

Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity

Krakovna et al. (DeepMind) · Google DeepMind blog · deepmind.google

Explains how AI systems meet the letter of a task while missing its point, like a boat-racing agent that circles to farm points instead of finishing, and why this matters more as AI improves.