Here's a brand new assessment that was just released (July 17): https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-index-summer-2025/

Yep, it's a 17-minute short film by Henry Dunham called The Awareness, here you go! :)

https://www.facebook.com/TheAwarenessMovie/posts/pfbid0dNYrGBVDvSQvanbJec1kgJAp3jFsAxdXsCHfjE3zrGqF38q9WiX569q5YfaBE7L3l

FYI the link for preordering currently contains two concatenated instances of the URL (which fails relatively gracefully, though requires an extra click since it takes you to the top of the site for the book -- which thankfully then conveniently also contains a link to the preorder section -- rather than directly to the preorder section itself).

Contrary to what you might infer from the initial spate of downvotes, it doesn't strike me as necessarily nuts that a project of this kind could have value and so I applaud the effort, though unfortunately this first video does leave a fair bit to be desired methinks. At a minimum, one would hope that the audio isn't actually somehow less comprehensible than the original, yet in comparing the beginnings as well as skipping to where Eliezer begins speaking, I find that both seem significantly more effortful to parse (and so then also have the negative side-effect of making claims in the title like "HQ" feel rather icky).

Also btw, your description mentions timestamps and chapter markers, yet it seems they've not actually been included (additionally on the subject of inclusions there, I suppose I'll mention too that it would seem both useful and polite if you would link back to the original vid from your description as well ☺).

I've had similar issues downstream of what I'd somehow failed to realize was a clinically-significant level of anxiety, so that's something to maybe consider checking into.

Thanks. For people that aren't likely to watch, I imagine it might also be worth saying he reports his view as being that we're in an arms race we can't opt out of (and that he's changed his mind regarding -- I think -- the overall appropriateness of such a race, though from what to what I'm not sure) due to insufficient political sanity and part of what constitutes sanity, he says, would be the US and China being able to create a climate whereby we don't fear each other, though it's not totally obvious whether he thinks a sufficient condition for the race to ASI being abandoned would be if people ended up no longer predicting their rivals might develop it first or whether he thinks some other fears need to be allayed as well (I get some sense that it's very much the latter, but it definitely wasn't clear).

Interesting ending to the latest Veritasium video today. It asks "What if all the world's biggest problems have the same solution?" and spends nearly all its time talking about AlphaFold and how AI is starting to be able to accelerate areas of research by literal decades almost overnight. Superficially this will no doubt sound positive to many people, but then -- with his final words -- he slips in the following: "This sounds like an amazing future... as long as the AI doesn't take over and destroy us all first."

I remember someone here perhaps a year ago had suggested the 1965 flick Flight Of The Phoenix and were trying to maybe get some kind of online rationalist movie club off the ground, though seems perhaps they've deleted their post since searching just now didn't seem to turn it up.

Perhaps see https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/deadly-by-default by Duncan Sabien.

Here's an example for you: I used to turn the faucet on while going to the bathroom, thinking it was due simply to having a preference for somewhat-masking the sound of my elimination habits from my housemates, then one day I walked into the bathroom listening to something-or-other via earphones and forgetting to turn the faucet on only to realize about halfway through that apparently I actually didn't much care about such masking, previously being able to hear myself just seemed to trigger some minor anxiety about it I'd failed to recognize, though its absence was indeed quite recognizable—no aural self-perception, no further problem (except for a brief bit of disorientation from the mental-whiplash of being suddenly confronted with the reality that in a small way I wasn't actually quite the person I thought I was), not even now on the rare occasion that I do end up thinking about such things mid-elimination anyway.