AI Safety Said Simply

We will produce a series of digestible explainers, demos, and videos on AI safety topics for the general public, politicians and policymakers, journalists, and educators. We will host and distribute them across relevant channels, including AI safety Slacks and Discords, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Hacker News, and university AI safety groups.

Mentees will write, edit, and produce content. Possible topics include sleeper agents, eval awareness, CoT unfaithfulness, AI Control, bio and cybersecurity uplift, compute verification, security levels, safeguards, and self-fulfilling misalignment.

Mentees work independently on their own explainers, videos, or demos, and pool effort on a more ambitious group build. Over three months of part-time work, the team would ship a body of published, distributed work: individual pieces under 1,000 words, short videos, and at least one substantial interactive artifact, plus a distribution plan targeting university AI safety groups, policy newsletters, and social channels.

Many valuable people do not have the time, bandwidth, or context to understand long and technical AI safety materials. Short, engaging, and easy-to-distribute content can reduce the barrier to understanding AI safety, improve the salience of relevant topics, and help shift the Overton Window in AI safety's favor.

Mentees will write, edit, and produce content, working independently on their own explainers, videos, or demos while pooling effort on a more ambitious group build. Expected output over three months is a body of published, distributed work: individual pieces under 1,000 words, short videos, and at least one substantial interactive artifact, plus a distribution plan.

Mentees should have broad knowledge of technical or policy AI safety, or the ability to learn quickly. Useful skills include writing short and simple pieces, video editing or production, running simple technical experiments or scraping operations, and proficiently using coding agents.