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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California's Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act makes large frontier AI developers publish safety frameworks, report risk assessments and safety incidents, and shield whistleblowers.
Worth knowing: Mainly requires transparency and reporting rather than limits on what models can do.
Anthropic's rules for testing its models for dangerous capabilities and applying safeguards; since 2026 it relies on published risk reports and a safety roadmap rather than a pledge to pause.
Worth knowing: Self-imposed company policy; version 3.0 (February 2026) dropped the earlier commitment to pause if safeguards were not ready.
METR's index of the safety frameworks published by frontier AI companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, Microsoft and Amazon, for comparing what each has committed to.
Worth knowing: The frameworks are written by the companies themselves.
Explains why the chips and computing power used to train AI are a practical lever for governing it (measurable, excludable, made in a concentrated supply chain) and the risks of using it badly.