Helpful Resources
So how to best carry the AI containment message? Here you can find additional tools and guides to help you protect yourself and others.
Congressional Scorecard
Find out how your state and representatives score on AI policy making.
Social Media Post Generator
Get help crafting a post tailored to your concerns and platform audience.
Data Centers
Learn ways to stop a data center from being developed in your community.
Phone Call Scripts
Get drafted scripts tailored to specific phone conversations you want or need to have.
Research Library
A curated collection of foundational research, reports, and statements on AI risk and safety.
Talking Points
Get help knowing what to say whether you're talking to friends and family, posting on social media, or working as a policy maker.
Media (Books, Films, Institutions, Forums)
A list of recommended books, documentaries, organizations, and newsletters.
Essential Books
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell · 2019
The definitive case from one of AI's founding researchers for why current AI development is on the wrong track, and what a safer approach would look like.
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian · 2020
A deeply reported, accessible account of the technical and human challenges of building AI systems that do what we actually want, not just what we tell them.
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark · 2017
A comprehensive exploration of what a world transformed by superintelligent AI might look like, and what choices we face now to shape that future.
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee · 2018
A former Google China president examines the US-China AI race and the profound economic disruption that automation will bring to workers worldwide.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff · 2019
A landmark analysis of how tech giants harvest and commodify human behavioral data, the economic engine that funds unaccountable AI development.
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil · 2016
A data scientist exposes how algorithms used in hiring, lending, and criminal justice encode and amplify systemic bias at unprecedented scale.
Power and Prediction
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb · 2022
An economic framework for understanding how AI shifts power, who gains it, who loses it, and how institutions must adapt to prevent harm.
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman · 2023
A cofounder of DeepMind argues that the next wave of AI and synthetic biology will be the most transformative and dangerous in history, and that containment is possible.
Documentaries & Videos
The Social Dilemma
Former tech insiders reveal how social media platforms are engineered to manipulate behavior, a direct precursor to understanding AI-driven persuasion at scale.
iHuman
A Norwegian documentary examining how AI is reshaping society, from surveillance to autonomous weapons, featuring interviews with leading AI researchers.
Coded Bias
MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini investigates racial and gender bias in facial recognition AI deployed by governments and corporations worldwide.
AlphaGo
The story of DeepMind's Go-playing AI, a landmark moment in AI history that showed machines could master tasks previously considered uniquely human.
Robert Miles: AI Safety
The clearest, most accessible video series on AI alignment and safety available anywhere. Start with 'Intro to AI Safety' for a comprehensive foundation.
Lex Fridman Podcast
Long-form conversations with leading AI researchers including Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Max Tegmark, and Sam Altman. Episodes vary widely in depth.
Who's Leading the Fight
Contain AI
A citizen-led movement fighting to contain and regulate artificial intelligence before it's too late. We provide tools, scripts, and scorecards to help everyday people pressure lawmakers for meaningful AI safety legislation.
Future of Life Institute
Works to reduce large-scale catastrophic and existential risks from transformative technologies including AI. Published the landmark open letter signed by thousands of researchers.
Center for AI Safety
Supports the technical research needed to make AI systems safe and beneficial. Coordinates the field of AI safety research and runs the ML Safety Scholars program.
AI Now Institute
Produces influential research on AI's social implications, bias, labor displacement, surveillance, and the concentration of power in Big Tech.
Algorithmic Justice League
Founded by Joy Buolamwini, AJL works to raise awareness of the harms of biased AI systems and advocates for more equitable and accountable AI.
Center for Human-Compatible AI
Stuart Russell's UC Berkeley research center focused on ensuring that AI systems are designed to be provably beneficial and aligned with human preferences.
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