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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Over a thousand staff at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and other labs ask the US government to back an international effort to build tools for deliberately pacing frontier AI development.
Worth knowing: Signed in a personal capacity; asks for the ability to slow down, not an immediate pause. OpenAI and Anthropic later endorsed it as companies.
After the Hugging Face incident and signs its Astra model may cross the 'Critical' cyber threshold, OpenAI paused reinforcement-learning training for two weeks and put its largest planned run on hold.
Worth knowing: The company's own account; the slowdown was voluntary.
Calls for a ban on developing superintelligence until there is broad scientific consensus it can be done safely and controllably, and strong public buy-in; signed by scientists and public figures.
Worth knowing: Organised by the Future of Life Institute, an advocacy nonprofit; the signature count includes a public petition.
Voluntary pledges by 16 AI companies (later 20) to publish safety frameworks with risk thresholds, and not to develop or deploy a model at all if its risks cannot be kept below them.
Worth knowing: Voluntary and not legally binding.