Readings + Reports

Official Datasets

General #

Stats #

  • AI Model Rankings – Based on real usage data from millions of users accessing models through OpenRouter.
  • Artificial Analysis – Artificial Analysis is an independent AI benchmarking & analysis company.

Frontier Firms #

Ethical and philosophical #

  • “AI as Normal Technology” by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor. Abstract: “We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI)** as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are ’normal’ in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which have a common tendency to treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially superintelligent entity.”
  • Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society
  • The Biosecurity Handbook – This handbook covers biosecurity fundamentals and how AI is changing biological risk.

Regulatory frameworks #

Substacks of note #

Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports #

Non-profits #

  • UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI) - Led by Stuart Russell, focuses on value alignment and beneficial AI
  • MIT AI Alignment - Research groups working on various aspects of AI safety
  • Carnegie Mellon University AI Safety groups - Multiple research initiatives on safe AI systems
  • Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown - Policy research on AI governance and security
  • Future of Humanity Institute (has US collaborations) - Works on long-term AI safety challenges
  • AI Safety Institute (AISI) - Part of the US government’s NIST, established in 2023
  • Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) - Long-standing organization focused on theoretical AI alignment
  • Future of Life Institute - Advocates for safe AI development and funds research

Semiconductors #

  • Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy By Chad P. Bown & Dan Wang. Abstract: “Semiconductors have emerged as a headline in the resurgence of modern industrial policy. This paper explores the political economic history of the sector, the changing nature of the semiconductor supply chain, and the new sources of concern that have motivated the most recent turn to government intervention. It also explores details of that turn to industrial policy by the United States, China, Japan, Europe, South Korea, and Taiwan. Modern industrial policy for semiconductors has included not only subsidies for manufacturing, but also new import tariffs, export controls, foreign investment screening, and antitrust actions.”

Extras #

See especially Marantz’s “ Among the AI Doomsayers” and Bordelon’s “ AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying.”

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