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
This list could be incomplete, biased, not updated, etc
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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