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Technical AI Safety research taxonomy attempt (2025)

Preface I'm a postdoc at CHAI working on AI safety. This document contains my rough attempt at a taxonomy of technical AI safety research in 2025. It’s certainly imperfect, and likely biased towards the research areas that I have the most experience with. I’m sure I’ve accidentally omitted some important...

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Technical AI Safety research taxonomy attempt (2025)

Preface I'm a postdoc at CHAI working on AI safety. This document contains my rough attempt at a taxonomy of technical AI safety research in 2025. It’s certainly imperfect, and likely biased towards the research areas that I have the most experience with. I’m sure I’ve accidentally omitted some important...

Aug 27, 20252

Technical AI Safety research taxonomy attempt (2025)

Benjamin Plaut

6mo

Preface

I'm a postdoc at CHAI working on AI safety. This document contains my rough attempt at a taxonomy of technical AI safety research in 2025. It’s certainly imperfect, and likely biased towards the research areas that I have the most experience with. I’m sure I’ve accidentally omitted some important topics. Please leave comments with suggestions for changes/additions.

Notes:

The amount of detail on a given topic is not a signal of importance. It’s mostly a signal of my familiarity with the topic.
The taxonomy is not subdivided by theoretical vs. empirical work. Many listed topics include both theoretical and empirical work.
The categorization is based on research areas, not threat models or model lifecycle stages. Since some research

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