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2025-11-11

Discussion forums for AI extinction risk

Update

• As much as I hate twitter, I think as of 2025-11, it is your current best option if you want a neutral platform to discuss the various perspectives people have on AI extinction risk.
• Other platforms are not neutral, be it youtube comment sections or discord groups or lesswrong forum, because the mods can delete or downvote comments
• Reasons I hate twitter - infinite scroll addictive UI, encourages shortform not longform, bad archival and search ability, etc

Some places where AI extinction risk gets discussed, but which I don't fully endorse.

• Lethal intelligence - Michael Zafiris - Active on youtube
• Pause AI - Joep Miendertsma, Holly Ellmore - Active on their public discord
• Conjecture - Connor Leahy - Active on twitter and youtube interviews
• MIRI - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares - Active on twitter and lesswrong
• AI Risk Network - John Sherman - Active on youtube
• Doom Debates - Liron Shapira - Active on youtube
• Lightcone Infrastructure - Oliver Habryka, Ben Pace, Raymond Arnold - Active on lesswrong
• Geoffrey Miller, Guido Reichstader, StopAI, many meme accounts - Active on twitter
• r/singularity, other subreddits - I don't know who the moderators are

I made a twitter list of many of the above listed people.

Why no endorsements?

• The number one reason I'm not explicitly endorsing many projects right now is due to lack of trust.
• (I think it would be good for the world if someone could get everyone in the same room and put more pressure to reach consensus and build trust.)
• Other possible reasons including a project being bad for the world or the team lacking competence to complete the project.

Independent discovery

• If you have enough free time, you can also discover independent blogs using open source search engines.
• Many high quality blogs exist on this topic.
• Here's an example script using searchmysite.net

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samueldashadrach/ccfilter/main/urls/searchmysite.txt | jq -R -s 'def chunks(n): (split("\n") | map(gsub("\r$";"")) | map(select(length>0))) as $a | [range(0; ($a|length); n)] | map($a[. : .+n]); chunks(20)[] | { model: "gpt-5", reasoning: { effort: "high" }, tools: [ { type: "web_search", filters: { allowed_domains: . } } ], tool_choice: "auto", include: ["web_search_call.action.sources"], input: "Find articles from 2025 about AI extinction risk." }' -c | while IFS= read -r payload; do printf '%s' "$payload" | curl "https://api.openai.com/v1/responses" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" -d @- | jq . -c; echo; done

• You can also append (site:exampleA.com OR site:exampleB.com OR site:exampleC.com) to google or duckduckgo search queries
• (I might build a tool to make all this easier.)

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