2026-03-19
Discussion forums for AI extinction risk
Disclaimer
- target audience - technical people with non-zero background about the whole ASI thing, but who may or may not actually be convinced ASI is actually coming yet. hence I've just started the post with a list
- This post is signal-boosted on my homepage, so maybe I should put more work in keeping it readable and up-to-date
Start here - my twitter list on ASI risks
- Start by using my twitter list:
Long list of people on ASI risks
Some places where AI extinction risk gets discussed.
- People working full-time on risks from ASI. (I may or may not endorse their work)
- Lightcone Infrastructure - Oliver Habryka, Ben Pace, Raymond Arnold - Active on lesswrong
- MIRI - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares - Active on twitter and lesswrong
- Rob Miles - Active on youtube
- 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
- AI Risk Network - John Sherman - Active on youtube
- Doom Debates - Liron Shapira - Active on youtube
- AI Species - Drew Spartz - Active on youtube
- Rational Animations - Active on youtube
- Siliconversations - Liam - Active on youtube
- Guido Reichstader, Stop AI - Active on twitter
- Geoffrey Miller, many meme accounts - Active on twitter
- The Inside View - Michael Trazzi - Active on youtube
- DrWaku - Active on youtube
- r/singularity, other subreddits - I don't know who the moderators are
- People working full-time on other stuff, but have also talked about risks from ASI
- Diary of a CEO - Steven Bartlett - Active on youtube. Has done many interviews on ASI
- kurzgesagt - Active on youtube. Has done videos on ASI
- Tim Urban - Active on youtube and his blog. Has written about ASI
- Bankless podcast - Active on youtube. Has done interviews on ASI
- Our World in Data - Team has/had some ASI-pilled people
- Bismarck, Palladium - Samo Burja - Team has/had some ASI-pilled people
- @ThunkShow - Active on youtube - Has done videos on ASI
- Kyle Hill - Active on youtube
- Novara Media - Active on youtube
- Taylor Lorenz - Active on youtube
See also
- hackernews - increasingly open to discussing this topic, although still skeptical
More on how to use twitter well
- If you want a summary of the twitter list I linked:
- Manually save the html of last 1 years' tweets from this list (none of the APIs work, you have to do it manually as of 2026-01)
- Write a quick summary of your views on AI risk (assuming you don't already have a blog or paper already)
- Ask gpt-5.2 to summarise what is most important and surprising difference between the worldview implied by your content and the worldviews implied by each of the tweets
- AFAIK this is SOTA. I have not been able to build anything better yet.
- (Update 2026-02-12) Maybe there is an easier to way to do this while sitting inside twitter's centralised walled garden. Maybe you can crosspost everyone's content to twitter and then ask grok to point out surprising and important differences between you and each person on a twitter list. I haven't checked how to do this.
- If you want to use a different list:
- You will have to manually curate a list of people you like. You can, for example, curate some subset of the high quality blogs on searchmysite.net. As of 2026-01, I have not been able to build anything better.
- If your list is short, you can use openai web_search's url whitelist or make google/duckduckgo queries (site:alice.com OR site:bob.com). If your list is long, you have to put in sufficient work to scrape the content first.
- Best place to discuss risks from ASI is twitter
- As much as I hate twitter, I think as of 2026-01, 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 censor comments. (Deleting comments is not the only way to censor comments as a moderator. You can also use downvotes or selective upvotes or rate limits or modify the recommendation algo yourself.)
- Reasons I hate twitter - infinite scroll addictive UI, encourages shortform not longform, bad archival and search ability (in-built version is mediocre, building your own version is discouraged), can be censored by platform owner
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