The Windfall Clause
This proposal for sharing extreme AI profits aims to reduce competitive race dynamics and broaden societal benefit, addressing the governance gap around transformative AI wealth.
AI governance & policy
Reading on AI governance, regulation, and policy: compute governance, international coordination, standards, and law.
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An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence
MIRI's Technical Governance Team sketches a concrete US-China coalition and verification regime, compute tracking, chip governance, and legal prohibitions, for halting the race toward superintelligence before it can be built safely.
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Scharre details how military AI autonomy changes escalation dynamics and why human-in-the-loop control mechanisms consistently lag behind battlefield capability.
The Coming Wave
Suleyman argues that containing omni-use technologies like AI is the defining geopolitical challenge of the century, proposing a containment framework from inside the industry.
Unknown: Killer Robots
This Netflix documentary follows the soldiers and scientists racing to build AI-powered autonomous weapons, and the activists warning that machines making their own life-or-death decisions on the battlefield is a line we should not cross.
AI Policy Podcast
Covers the intersection of AI governance, legislation, and safety, with expert guests on regulatory frameworks, international coordination, and policy strategies for advanced AI.
International AI Safety Report 2026
The closest thing AI safety has to an IPCC report: a scientific assessment of frontier-AI capabilities and risks written by more than a hundred experts under Bengio's chairmanship and backed by over 30 governments.
State of AI Safety in China
Concordia AI's annual report and interactive companion site tracks China's domestic and international AI safety governance, technical research, and industry practice, filling the biggest blind spot in Western-centric AI safety discourse.
AI Safety Index — Summer 2026
An independent panel of AI and governance experts grades nine frontier labs A-through-F across risk assessment, safety frameworks, and existential safety, finding that none scored above a C+ and several had walked back prior safety pledges.
Slaughterbots
A dramatized near-future short film from FLI and Stuart Russell depicting swarms of autonomous facial-recognition microdrones used as weapons, made to warn against lethal autonomous weapons.
How to Legislate AI
Harris examines why people are scared of AI and how governments might regulate it, covering risks to critical infrastructure, military uses, and the difficulty of overseeing systems we don't understand.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Testifies on AI Oversight Before Senate
The landmark May 2023 Senate Judiciary hearing where Altman told Congress that government intervention is critical to mitigate AI risks and proposed licensing for the most powerful systems.