Library
1,575 resources from our source documents and AISafety.com: courses, reading lists, programmes, tools, organisations, communities and funders.
Where to start
Introductions
- BlueDot: The Future of AI (opens in a new tab)Free, self-paced, about 90 minutes.
- AISafety.info (opens in a new tab)Answers to common questions about AI risk.
- AI Safety Atlas (opens in a new tab)Free online textbook.
Technical AI safety
- BlueDot: Technical AI Safety course (opens in a new tab)Free 30-hour cohort course. Assumes a basic idea of how LLMs are trained.
- AI Safety Atlas (opens in a new tab)Free online textbook.
- ARENA (opens in a new tab)Coding curriculum for ML safety engineering.
Biosecurity
- BlueDot: Biosecurity course (opens in a new tab)Free 30-hour course. No biology background required.
- Preventing catastrophic pandemics (opens in a new tab)80,000 Hours problem profile.
- Is that DNA dangerous? (opens in a new tab)Asimov Press on why DNA orders are screened.
Frontier AI governance
- BlueDot: Frontier AI Governance course (opens in a new tab)Free 25-hour cohort course.
- BlueDot: AGI Strategy course (opens in a new tab)Recommended before the governance course.
- Open Problems in Technical AI Governance (opens in a new tab)Reuel et al., 2024. Maps where technical work can help governance.
AI policy
- International AI Safety Report (opens in a new tab)Summary of the science of AI risk, written for policymakers.
- EU AI Act: high-level summary (opens in a new tab)Short overview of the EU’s AI law.
- OECD.AI Policy Observatory (opens in a new tab)Compare AI policies across countries.
AI safety × philosophy
- AI Safety, Ethics and Society (CAIS) (opens in a new tab)Textbook drawing on several fields to analyse AI risk.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (opens in a new tab)Free background on most of the concepts used here.
- Taking AI Welfare Seriously (opens in a new tab)Long et al., 2024.
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Courses, programmes, funders, advisors, communities, organisations and media from AISafety.com (opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 November 2026. Reading lists from the sources on the About page.