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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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Research paperMar 4, 2022Technical

Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Long Ouyang, Jeff Wu, Xu Jiang et al. (OpenAI) · arXiv · arxiv.org

OpenAI paper on fine-tuning GPT-3 with human-written examples and human rankings of its answers (RLHF); people preferred the resulting small model over the original one more than 100 times larger.

Research paperJun 12, 2017Technical

Attention Is All You Need

Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin · arXiv · arxiv.org

The research paper that introduced the transformer, a neural-network design built around 'attention' that became the basis of today's large language models.