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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Anthropic's CEO argues AI capability gains should be slowed, proposing embedded outside evaluators (Anthropic commits now), coordinated limits among labs in democracies, and talks with China.
Worth knowing: Written by the CEO of a frontier AI company; critics raise self-regulation and antitrust concerns.
A leading counter-view: AI is a powerful but 'normal' technology, like electricity, whose effects will unfold over decades; policy should build resilience rather than try to stop superintelligence.
Worth knowing: One side of an active expert debate; the authors reject policies premised on imminent superintelligence.
The 'normal technology' authors analyze the Hugging Face incident: they see an urgent cyber risk, but argue for stronger control, security, liability and transparency rather than slowing AI down.
Worth knowing: Argues against pauses; one side of a live debate.
Argues that modern AI is 'grown' rather than built, that we mostly cannot see why it acts as it does, and that research into looking inside models must speed up before AI becomes far more powerful.
Worth knowing: Written by the CEO of Anthropic, a frontier AI company.