It's really important; we've got a real shot; there are a ton of ways to fail.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/04/30/can-we-safely-automate-alignment-research/.

There's also a video and transcript of a talk I gave on this topic here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/04/30/video-and-transcript-of-talk-on-automating-alignment-research/

We should try extremely hard to use AI labor to help address the alignment problem. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/03/14/ai-for-ai-safety

On the structure of the path to safe superintelligence, and some possible milestones along the way. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.substack.com/p/paths-and-waystations-in-ai-safety

Examining the conditions required for rogue AI behavior.

Also: to avoid it? Handle it? Solve it forever? Solve it completely?

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.substack.com/p/what-is-it-to-solve-the-alignment

Introduction to a series of essays about paths to safe and useful superintelligence.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.substack.com/p/how-do-we-solve-the-alignment-problem

When the line pulls at your hand.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/01/28/fake-thinking-and-real-thinking/.

What can we learn from recent empirical demonstrations of scheming in frontier models? Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/12/18/takes-on-alignment-faking-in-large-language-models/