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An Alignment Journal: Adaptation to AI

by JessRiedel, Dan MacKinlay, Yonatan Cale, and david reinstein

This is the Alignment journal development blog series We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment and outlined our features and policies. In this next cross-post from our blog, we describe how we expect AI progress to shape the journal. Future posts will discuss our theory of change,...

Apr 2825

Potentially impactful research: Unjournal AI-assisted prioritization dashboard (~prototype)

We've been experimenting with using LLMs to help identify and prioritize research for Unjournal evaluation, to work with and complement human prioritization (and learn). We now have a public prototype dashboard. It's early stage and needs refinement we have not invested a lot of compute/API credit into this. What it...

Apr 154

Searchable explorer of EA Forum & LessWrong posts with explicit cruxes or "change my mind" content

Status: early stage, let us know if it's being done better elsewhere Forum Post Cruxes and Pivotal Questions Explorer EA Forum and LessWrong posts sometimes contain explicit cruxes, "what would change my mind" statements, "hinge beliefs", and research-blocking open questions. As part of The Unjournal's Pivotal Questions project we're trying...

Apr 1212

An Alignment Journal: Features and policies

by JessRiedel, Dan MacKinlay, Luca, Daniel Murfet, and david reinstein

We previously announced a forthcoming research journal for AI alignment. This cross-post from our blog describes our tentative plans for the features and policies of the journal, including experiments like reviewer compensation and reviewer abstracts. It is the first in a series of posts that will go on to discuss...

Apr 761

Cost of Cultured Meat: workshop, modeling, resources, feedback

Update — April 16, 2026 Date confirmed: Friday, May 8, 11:00am–3:00pm ET (4–8pm UK · 5–9pm CET). Two supplementary sessions have also been added: an informal pre-session on Wed May 6, 11am–12pm ET for those with May 8 conflicts, and a European morning drop-in on May 8, 9–10am ET for...

Mar 303

The "talker–feeler gap": AI valence may be unknowable

TLDR: Maybe AI is conscious, and maybe it has good/bad sensations ('valence'), but I raise doubt about whether the 'part we can observe/communicate with' knows what makes the possibly sentient part suffering or happy. Epistemic status: Exploratory. I'm stepping outside my domain; I'm neither a philosopher of minds nor a...

Mar 1911

An Alignment Journal: Coming Soon

by Dan MacKinlay, JessRiedel, Edmund Lau, Daniel Murfet, Scott Aaronson, Jan_Kulveit, david reinstein, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, and Marcus Hutter

tl;dr We’re incubating an academic journal for AI alignment: rapid peer-review of foundational Alignment research that the current publication ecosystem underserves. Key bets: paid attributed review, reviewer-written synthesis abstracts, and targeted automation. Contact us if you’re interested in participating as an author, reviewer, or editor, or if you know someone...

Mar 3255