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Explain which question each measure helps answer and what remains uncertain." ], "recordIds": [ "term-ai-system", "practice-practice-access", "practice-practice-observe" ], "readings": [ { "id": "term-ai-system", "title": "AI system", "url": "https://theaiatlas.org/ideas/ai-system/", "jsonUrl": "https://theaiatlas.org/records/term-ai-system.json" }, { "id": "practice-practice-access", "title": "Set limits before it takes action", "url": "https://theaiatlas.org/evidence.html#practice-access", "jsonUrl": "https://theaiatlas.org/records/practice-practice-access.json" }, { "id": "practice-practice-observe", "title": "Keep a useful record of what happened", "url": "https://theaiatlas.org/evidence.html#practice-observe", "jsonUrl": "https://theaiatlas.org/records/practice-practice-observe.json" } ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": "deepmind-framework", "title": "Strengthening our Frontier Safety Framework", "publisher": "Google DeepMind", "url": "https://deepmind.google/blog/strengthening-our-frontier-safety-framework/", "published": "2025-09-22", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "The article contains an April 2026 update. A published framework is evidence of stated policy, not an estimate of catastrophe probability.", "updated": "2026-04-17" }, { "id": "ea-definition", "title": "What is effective altruism?", "publisher": "Effective Altruism", "url": "https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism", "published": null, "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Definition of a philosophy/community, not a placement on the AI chart." }, { "id": "eacc-definition", "title": "what the f* is e/acc", "publisher": "e/acc newsletter", "url": "https://effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com/p/what-the-f-is-eacc", "published": "2022-12-26", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Movement self-description. Participants need not share a single risk estimate." }, { "id": "eacc-tenets", "title": "Notes on e/acc principles and tenets", "publisher": "e/acc newsletter / BasedBeffJezos and bayeslord", "url": "https://effectiveaccelerationism.substack.com/p/repost-notes-on-eacc-principles-and", "published": "2022-10-31", "checkedOn": "2026-09-16", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Date belongs to the repost. Read as a movement's own philosophical claims, not independent scientific validation. Includes adversarial usage of decel.", "retrieval": { "method": "publisher-page", "scope": "Principles and tenets, including the embedded July 8, 2022 post using decel as criticism. Read as advocacy, not scientific validation." } }, { "id": "verdon-interview", "title": "Guillaume Verdon: e/acc, AI doomers and effective altruism (transcript #407)", "publisher": "Lex Fridman Podcast", "url": "https://lexfridman.com/guillaume-verdon-transcript/", "published": "2023-12-29", "checkedOn": "2026-09-16", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the AI doomers and effective altruism sections as examples of contested terminology. An advocate's description of opponents is not a neutral definition of their views. Transcript may contain errors.", "retrieval": { "method": "publisher-page", "scope": "Introduction, p(doom) discussion from 57:56, AI doomers section from 2:26:27 and effective altruism section. These are attributed views; the transcript may contain errors." } }, { "id": "dacc-original", "title": "My techno-optimism", "publisher": "Vitalik Buterin", "url": "https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html", "published": "2023-11-27", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read via the author's eth.limo site because vitalik.ca did not load. Introduces defensive, differential and decentralization-focused acceleration. Used for ideas, not a new placement of the author." }, { "id": "longtermism-definition", "title": "Longtermism", "publisher": "William MacAskill", "url": "https://www.williammacaskill.com/longtermism", "published": null, "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "An advocate's account of the moral importance of future people. The page is undated; the book's publication date is not used as the page date." }, { "id": "pauseai-proposal-2026", "title": "PauseAI Proposal (April 2026 version)", "publisher": "PauseAI", "url": "https://pauseai.org/proposal", "published": "2026-04-05", "checkedOn": "2026-09-16", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the April 5th, 2026 version, including its global pause, training approvals and democratic-control conditions. Used for the movement's published proposal and terminology; its predictions are attributed advocacy.", "retrieval": { "method": "publisher-page", "scope": "April 2026 proposal: pause and approval conditions, democratic control, effects of a treaty, and proposed longer-term research and hardware restrictions." }, "archive": { "status": "not-verified", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "notes": "The Wayback availability lookup returned HTTP 429 (rate limited). No capture was verified; this does not show that no archived copy exists." } }, { "id": "cais-risk", "title": "Statement on AI Extinction Risk", "publisher": "Center for AI Safety", "url": "https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk", "published": null, "checkedOn": "2026-09-16", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the statement after following the safe.ai redirect. Establishes advocacy for treating extinction risk as a priority, not certainty of catastrophe or a common numerical probability. No new signatory claims are inferred.", "retrieval": { "method": "publisher-page", "scope": "The extinction-risk statement only. This review does not check the signatory list or current roles." } }, { "id": "agi-levels", "title": "Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI", "publisher": "Meredith Ringel Morris and coauthors / arXiv", "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462", "published": "2023-11-04", "updated": "2025-09-24", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read abstract, Table 1 and autonomy discussion. Proposed distinctions between breadth, performance and autonomy; no current model classification adopted." }, { "id": "learned-optimization", "title": "Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced Machine Learning Systems", "publisher": "Evan Hubinger and coauthors / arXiv", "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01820", "published": "2019-06-05", "updated": "2021-12-01", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read abstract and revision history introducing mesa-optimization and the relation between learned and training objectives." }, { "id": "concrete-safety", "title": "Concrete Problems in AI Safety", "publisher": "Dario Amodei and coauthors / arXiv", "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565", "published": "2016-06-21", "updated": "2016-07-25", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the abstract's five accident-risk problems including reward hacking and distributional shift. Does not give a general catastrophe probability." }, { "id": "nist-genai-profile", "title": "Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile", "publisher": "National Institute of Standards and Technology", "url": "https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/NIST.AI.600-1.pdf", "published": "2024-07", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read introduction, section 2.2 on confabulation, and selected MEASURE actions 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 2.9 concerning evaluation evidence, generalization, citations, generated-code review and safeguards. A voluntary risk-management profile; no claim that all 64 pages or every referenced study was reviewed." }, { "id": "google-ml-glossary", "title": "Machine Learning Glossary", "publisher": "Google for Developers", "url": "https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary", "published": null, "updated": "2026-04-10", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the artificial intelligence, deep model, context window, inference and chat entries. Used for terminology, not product performance claims. Updated date follows the earlier displayed page date; initial publication is unspecified. The chat entry was reread during the same-day beginner-content review. Also read the generalization and compute entries." }, { "id": "google-llm-intro", "title": "LLMs: What's a large language model?", "publisher": "Google for Developers", "url": "https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/llm/transformers", "published": null, "updated": "2026-01-02", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read token prediction, encoder-only and decoder-only variants, and self-attention. Used for architecture and terminology; broad performance comparisons and claims about all LLMs on the teaching page are not adopted." }, { "id": "hf-models", "title": "Models", "publisher": "Hugging Face LLM Course", "url": "https://huggingface.co/learn/llm-course/en/chapter2/3", "published": null, "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read architecture, weights, checkpoints, loading and saving. Used to distinguish a model's structure and learned values from the application around it. Example code was read, not executed; live page publication date unspecified." }, { "id": "hf-text-generation", "title": "Text generation", "publisher": "Hugging Face Transformers documentation", "url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/llm_tutorial", "published": null, "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read next-token generation, generation settings, temperature, sampling and prompt-format sections. Library options illustrate the process; defaults and suggested temperatures are not treated as universal chatbot behavior. Live page publication date unspecified." }, { "id": "hf-tool-use", "title": "Tool use", "publisher": "Hugging Face Transformers documentation", "url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/chat_extras", "published": null, "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read tool descriptions, model-generated call requests, application execution and returning results to the chat. Example functions were not run. Used for the separation between requesting and executing an action; live page publication date unspecified." }, { "id": "glossary-balance-ea-crary", "title": "Against ‘Effective Altruism’", "publisher": "Alice Crary / Radical Philosophy", "url": "https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/against-effective-altruism", "published": "2021", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the institutional and philosophical critique and discussion of EA replies. These are Crary’s arguments, not findings about every participant or charity. Publication precision is the issue year." }, { "id": "glossary-balance-ea-donor-power", "title": "Response to Effective Altruism", "publisher": "Emma Saunders-Hastings / Boston Review", "url": "https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/peter-singer-logic-effective-altruism/response-emma-saunders-hastings/", "published": "2015-07-01", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the complete response on donor power and recipient choice. Historical charity recommendations are not repeated as current advice. The argument warns of a governance problem rather than rejecting every donation." }, { "id": "glossary-balance-ea-response", "title": "Frequently asked questions and common objections", "publisher": "EffectiveAltruism.org", "url": "https://www.effectivealtruism.org/faqs", "published": null, "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the definitions and replies on utilitarianism, uncertainty, systemic change and competing priorities. This is the movement website’s account of its principles, not an independent evaluation of its institutions." }, { "id": "software-lens-nist-software", "title": "software", "publisher": "National Institute of Standards and Technology", "url": "https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/software", "published": null, "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the definitions of software as programs and associated data, and the distinction from physical hardware. The glossary aggregates several contextual definitions, including entries for related hardware and firmware terms; it is not a single universal definition. Referenced standards were not read in full. Live page publication date unspecified." }, { "id": "software-lens-oecd-system", "title": "Explanatory memorandum on the updated OECD definition of an AI system", "publisher": "Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development", "url": "https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2024/03/explanatory-memorandum-on-the-updated-oecd-definition-of-an-ai-system_3c815e51/623da898-en.pdf", "published": "2024-03-05", "checkedOn": "2026-09-15", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read the updated definition and explanatory sections on techniques, human roles, autonomy, physical and virtual environments, inputs, models and outputs (pages 4 and 6 to 9). Publication date follows the OECD publication landing page. Used to distinguish models from systems and learned methods from knowledge-based approaches, not as a claim about human-like understanding or a legal classification of a particular product." }, { "id": "grace-ai-authors-survey-2024", "title": "Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI (version 3)", "publisher": "Katja Grace and colleagues / arXiv", "url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2401.02843v3", "published": "2024-01-05", "updated": "2025-10-08", "checkedOn": "2026-09-16", "kind": "primary", "verification": "read", "notes": "Read selected sections only. Survey estimates express respondents' beliefs; they do not measure future disaster rates.", "retrieval": { "method": "publisher-page", "scope": "Abstract, introduction, section 2, sections 4.2–4.3 and 5.2 of version 3; not the full paper or appendices." } } ] }