“AI Safety Agendas” by Alicia Pallarol, Shaun Paul, Ihor Kendiukhov

A map of the AI safety field's problems and agendas, and a request for your ratings

We built aisafetyagendas.com, an interactive map of AI safety research agendas and how they map to different problems in alignment. The rows are 12 core problems, the columns are research areas, and inside you can find 58 research agendas. Each cell is the intersection of a problem and an area: the number tells you how many agendas target that problem, the colour tells you how mature they are. We did a first pass ourselves, using our own judgement, but the first pass is not the point.

Figure 1: The Map at aisafetyagendas.com

The point is that every cell is a question aimed back at the community: is this rating right? You can rate the cells in your area, tell us how familiar you are with it, and read the map as best case, average, or worst case depending on how optimistic you feel. It was built as part of the Safe AI Germany Incubator.

Figure 2: From left to right best, average and worst case rating examples.

The allocation problem

The field cannot see its own resource allocation. Leech and Lynn put it [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) A map of the AI safety field's problems and agendas, and a request for your ratings

(01:26) The allocation problem

(03:28) What the platform does

(05:27) What we want from you

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First published:
September 27th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mzK2cmFquDzYTt3nr/ai-safety-agendas

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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