A directory of people and organisations explaining AI risk to the public, across both the existential-risk and present-day-harms conversations.
These bios describe what each person or organisation does. Common Signals does not rate, rank or assess them. Listing here is not an endorsement.
We're looking for people and organisations who: speak to a public audience (not just other researchers or industry insiders), publish roughly monthly (or more often) on AI risk, have verifiable links (a website or social profile we can check). We don't list lab communications accounts, vendors selling AI products or services, or academics who only publish for other researchers.
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Berkeley nonprofit founded in 2000 that argues building superintelligence with current methods would most likely cause human extinction. Its president Nate Soares co-wrote the 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies and calls for a global moratorium on superintelligence development.
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British-Canadian computer scientist and University of Toronto professor emeritus whose neural network research earned the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Since leaving Google in 2023 he has spoken publicly about a meaningful chance that advanced AI could lead to human extinction.
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Turing Award winner and Université de Montréal professor who chairs the International AI Safety Report and founded the nonprofit LawZero in 2025. He argues that frontier AI could pose catastrophic risks and advocates safe-by-design, non-agentic systems.
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British-born UC Berkeley professor, co-author of the standard AI textbook and author of Human Compatible. He directs the Center for Human-Compatible AI and argues that unchecked development of superhuman AI poses a serious risk of loss of human control.
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UK not-for-profit campaigning to prevent extinction risk from superintelligent AI. It briefs parliamentarians and runs public campaigns calling for a ban on superintelligence development.
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Volunteer-led movement founded in the Netherlands in 2023 that campaigns for an international pause on training the most powerful AI systems until they can be made safe. It runs protests, lobbying and local chapters, including a UK chapter and a separate PauseAI US.
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Nonprofit founded in 2014 that works to steer transformative technologies away from extreme large-scale risks, with a focus on AI, biotechnology and nuclear weapons. It organised the 2023 open letter calling for a pause on giant AI experiments and funds policy work, grants and public education.
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AI researcher who co-founded EleutherAI and the London AI safety company Conjecture in 2022. In 2026 he stepped down as Conjecture chief executive to become US director of ControlAI, and is a frequent media voice warning of extinction risk from superintelligence.
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UK science communicator whose Robert Miles AI Safety YouTube channel explains alignment problems and existential risk to a general audience. He also appears on Computerphile and works on the aisafety.info explainer project.
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London nonprofit that provides careers advice aimed at the world's most pressing problems, and rates risks from advanced AI as its top priority. Its long-form podcast with Rob Wiblin features many of the field's leading researchers and policy figures.
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San Francisco nonprofit led by Dan Hendrycks that works to reduce societal-scale risks from AI through research, field-building and advocacy. It coordinated the 2023 statement, signed by many leading researchers, that AI extinction risk should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.
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Independent London research institute, established by the Nuffield Foundation, working to ensure data and AI serve people and society. Publishes research and policy analysis on AI regulation, public attitudes, algorithmic accountability and the use of AI in public services.
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UK campaign, led by Jeni Tennison, working to give communities a powerful say in decisions about data and AI. Runs public participation projects, policy advocacy and the People's Panel on AI, focused on collective rather than purely individual data rights.
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Computer scientist and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, whose Gender Shades research exposed racial and gender bias in commercial facial analysis systems. Author of Unmasking AI and featured in the documentary Coded Bias.
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Computer scientist who co-led Google's Ethical AI team before her contested departure in 2020, then founded the Distributed AI Research Institute. DAIR conducts community-rooted research on AI harms, including labour exploitation, surveillance and the concentration of power in large technology firms.
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Professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington and co-author of the stochastic parrots paper on large language model risks. Co-hosts the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast with Alex Hanna and co-wrote The AI Con.
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Cognitive scientist, emeritus professor at NYU and founder of two AI companies, known for sustained criticism of large language model reliability and industry hype. Writes the Marcus on AI newsletter and testified to the US Senate on AI oversight in 2023.
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Journalist who has covered AI for MIT Technology Review, the Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. Her 2025 book Empire of AI examines OpenAI and the global labour, resource and power costs of the AI industry.
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New York policy research institute, co-directed by Amba Kak and Sarah Myers West, studying the social and economic effects of AI. Its work focuses on industry concentration, competition, labour and the power of large technology companies over AI development.
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British investigative journalist who exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal for The Observer and The Guardian. Now writes the How to Survive the Broligarchy newsletter and podcast on the political power of technology billionaires, disinformation and threats to democracy.
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UK charity founded by Baroness Beeban Kidron working for children's rights in the digital environment. It shaped the Age Appropriate Design Code and has published a Children and AI Design Code setting out how AI systems should address foreseeable risks to children.
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Technology researcher and former chief executive of Doteveryone, now leading the Careful Industries research studio. Her work covers responsible technology, digital identity and community tech, and she writes the Just Enough Internet newsletter.
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Nonprofit forecasting group led by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, best known for the AI 2027 scenario published in April 2025. It sets out concrete, dated predictions of how superhuman AI could arrive and what might follow.
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Amsterdam foundation founded by Otto Barten that works to reduce existential risk by raising public awareness and informing debate. It runs events, media outreach and policy work, with unaligned AI as its leading concern.
Australia
Coalition of experts and citizens administered by the charity Good Ancestors, campaigning for safe AI governance in Australia. It coordinates open letters, expert testimony, media engagement and election campaigns calling for a national AI Safety Institute.
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San Francisco nonprofit co-founded by Tristan Harris, known for The Social Dilemma and the AI Dilemma talks. It reaches mainstream audiences through the Your Undivided Attention podcast, public talks and policy advocacy on AI and social media harms.
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Podcast and Substack run by entrepreneur Liron Shapira, who debates guests across the spectrum on whether AI could cause human extinction. Its stated aim is to raise mainstream awareness of AGI risk and build infrastructure for public debate.
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Oakland grassroots group using non-violent civil disobedience, including protests and blockades at OpenAI, to demand a permanent global ban on frontier AI development. It frames advanced AI as a direct extinction threat and addresses a general audience.
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Grassroots nonprofit founded and led by Holly Elmore, organisationally separate from PauseAI Global. It mobilises citizens to lobby lawmakers, stages protests and local events, and campaigns for an international treaty pausing frontier AI development.
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Volunteer-maintained explainer site answering common questions about existential risk from advanced AI in plain language. Founded by Rob Miles and run by a global team under the nonprofit Ashgro, it aims to inform newcomers rather than campaign.
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Weekly podcast hosted by Nathan Labenz interviewing AI builders and researchers about near-term transformative AI. Labenz, a former OpenAI red-teamer, regularly raises catastrophic-risk concerns for a broad, non-specialist audience.
Germany
Non-profit research and advocacy organisation based in Berlin and Zurich. It investigates automated decision-making systems and their effects on justice, human rights, democracy and sustainability, and campaigns for stronger accountability across Europe.
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International digital rights organisation defending the rights of people and communities at risk online. It runs a digital security helpline, campaigns against surveillance, internet shutdowns and harmful AI, and convenes the annual RightsCon summit.
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The technology and human rights programme of Amnesty International. It investigates spyware, surveillance, algorithmic discrimination in public services and the accountability of major platforms, publishing research aimed at both policymakers and the general public.
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Canadian-born author, journalist and activist based between London and Los Angeles, and a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His recent books, including Enshittification and The Internet Con, examine platform power, monopoly and the decline of digital services.
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Canadian technology critic who hosts the weekly podcast Tech Won't Save Us and writes the newsletter Disconnect. Their work covers data centres, AI hype, platform power and the politics of Silicon Valley, and their book Hyperscale examines the costs of data centre expansion.
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UK non-profit that uses litigation and campaigning to challenge misuse of technology by governments and large tech firms. Its work includes cases on algorithmic decision-making in public services, Palantir's NHS contracts, data centre job claims and AI scraping of publishers' content.
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President of the Signal Foundation and co-founder of the AI Now Institute. A former Google researcher who helped organise the 2018 walkouts, she speaks widely on surveillance, the concentration of power in the AI industry and the privacy risks of agentic AI.
Canada
Montreal AI researcher known for measuring the energy use and carbon emissions of machine learning models. Formerly AI and climate lead at Hugging Face, she co-founded Sustainable AI Group and was named to the TIME 100 AI list and BBC 100 Women in 2024.
Ireland
Ethiopian-born cognitive scientist who founded and leads the AI Accountability Lab at Trinity College Dublin. Her research audits large datasets and models for bias and harm, and she argues publicly for justice-oriented accountability rather than industry self-regulation.
United States
Writes the Platformer newsletter on AI and social platforms and co-hosts the New York Times podcast Hard Fork with Kevin Roose. Weekly episodes cover AI safety, model behaviour, regulation and job displacement for a mainstream audience.
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Historian and author of Sapiens and Nexus, a 2024 book on information networks and AI. He argues in global media, talks and broadcast interviews that AI is the first technology able to make decisions and generate ideas independently, posing civilisational risks.
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Anonymous UK YouTuber whose channel covers the arrival of smarter-than-human AI, with close readings of frontier model releases and safety papers. He created the Simple Bench reasoning benchmark and runs the AI Insiders Patreon community.
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Comedian and creator of Adam Ruins Everything who hosts the Factually! podcast and a large YouTube channel. Recent episodes on AI hype, AI safety, labour and data centres frame AI as a present-day harm to workers and the internet.
Australia
Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW Sydney and author of popular books including Faking It and The Shortest History of AI. He appears regularly on ABC, SBS, BBC and CNN discussing autonomous weapons, deepfakes and regulation.
France
CeSIA is a French nonprofit, spun out of the EffiSciences AI Safety Unit, that produces technical distillation and public-education materials on catastrophic AI risk, including the AI Safety Atlas. It also engages in EU AI Act evaluation and policy work, run by executive director Charbel-Raphaël Segerie.
France
Pause IA is a French grassroots association campaigning for a pause or strict regulation of advanced AI development, organising public demonstrations and press appearances. It runs an active Instagram and X presence alongside a French-language press page on its own site.
Sweden
PauseAI Sweden is the Swedish national chapter of the PauseAI movement, campaigning publicly for a slowdown of frontier AI development pending adequate safety guarantees. It was announced as a new national chapter alongside the Australian chapter.
Denmark
Gry Hasselbalch is a Danish data ethics researcher and co-founder of the Danish think tank Dataetisk Tænkehandletank (DataEthics.eu), writing and speaking publicly on AI, data and human rights. She publishes regularly through her own site and DataEthics.eu, and speaks at public and industry events on AI's societal effects.
Belgium
Risto Uuk, a Future of Life Institute policy researcher based in Brussels, writes The EU AI Act Newsletter, a long-running Substack that explains EU AI Act developments in plain language to a broad following. The newsletter covers both AI Act compliance and broader AI safety and governance debates.
Belgium
EDRi is a Brussels-based network of digital rights NGOs that publishes the EDRi-gram, a regular newsletter and press output covering AI Act implementation and algorithmic surveillance in the EU. It is a frequent public and press commentator on EU AI regulation.
Italy
Luciano Floridi is an Italian philosopher of information and AI ethics, director of the Digital Ethics Center, who writes and comments frequently for general-audience press and gives public talks on AI's societal and ethical implications. He maintains an active X presence and has authored several public-facing books on AI ethics.
Spain
Alberto Romero is a Spanish writer who publishes The Algorithmic Bridge, a long-running Substack newsletter explaining AI developments and risks to a general audience without commercial ties to AI vendors. The newsletter has built a large following in Substack's technology category and posts on a close-to-weekly cadence.
India
Internet Freedom Foundation is an Indian digital rights nonprofit that publishes public explainers, a Substack newsletter and press commentary on AI regulation, surveillance and platform governance in India. It regularly covers artificial intelligence issues on its own site.
India
Tarunabh Khaitan is an Oxford-based Indian legal scholar who writes regularly for general-audience Indian outlets and the public law blog Law and Other Things on constitutional and regulatory issues, including AI governance. He is active on X commenting on Indian legal and policy developments.
India
Digital Empowerment Foundation is an Indian nonprofit, led by founder-director Osama Manzar, working on digital literacy and inclusion that increasingly covers generative AI's effects on rural and marginalised communities. Manzar speaks and writes regularly at public forums and in Indian and international press on AI access and labour impacts.
Singapore
Simon Chesterman is a Singapore-based law professor at NUS's AI Governance Centre who writes public-facing commentary on AI governance and ethics for outlets such as Just Security and speaks at international forums including AI for Good. He maintains a personal website collecting his public writing on AI and law.
New Zealand
AI Forum New Zealand is a nonprofit multi-stakeholder body that publishes regular news, reports and public commentary on AI adoption, workforce impacts and governance in New Zealand. It maintains an active news page and X account.
Taiwan
Audrey Tang, Taiwan's former digital minister, writes and speaks internationally on AI, democracy and civic technology, publishing regularly through a Substack and frequent public talks and interviews. Her work explicitly bridges AI-safety and present-harms framings, focusing on participatory and accountable AI governance.
South Africa
Research ICT Africa is a Cape Town-based think tank publishing policy research and public commentary on data governance, AI regulation and digital equality across African countries. It is cited as a civil-society reference body by UNESCO's AI ethics network.
Nigeria
Paradigm Initiative is a pan-African digital rights organisation based in Nigeria that publishes a regular newsletter, policy briefs and press commentary on digital rights issues, including AI's effects on privacy and civic space across Africa. It maintains an active X presence.
Uganda
Pollicy is a Kampala-based feminist civic technology organisation, led by Neema Iyer, working on data governance, AI and its effects on gender and public discourse in East Africa. It hosts public events, including sessions on AI and journalism, and is active on X.
Kenya
Nanjala Nyabola is a Kenyan writer and political analyst who publishes regularly in general-audience outlets on technology, politics and digital rights in Africa, including AI-related surveillance and disinformation. She is an active public commentator on X.
Chile
Derechos Digitales is a Chile-based Latin American digital rights organisation publishing policy analysis and public commentary on AI regulation and data protection across the region. It is a recognised civil-society partner of bodies such as Privacy International and UNESCO's AI ethics network.
Brazil
Coding Rights is a Brazilian feminist digital-rights organisation, founded and led by Joana Varon, that produces public-facing research, art and advocacy on AI, surveillance and gender in Latin America. Varon speaks and is interviewed regularly about digital technology and human rights.
Mexico
R3D is a Mexican digital rights organisation that publishes blog posts, reports and public commentary on surveillance, data protection and emerging AI regulation in Mexico. It maintains an active blog and X account with regular output.
Argentina
Fundación Vía Libre is an Argentine digital-rights organisation that runs a dedicated unit on AI applied to security and publishes public articles on AI's civil-liberties implications. It maintains an active English- and Spanish-language site and X account.
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Partnership on AI is a multi-stakeholder nonprofit that publishes a public blog and press statements on responsible AI development, spanning both frontier-risk and present-harms framings such as labour and generative-media provenance. It posts to its blog and X account on a regular, sub-monthly cadence.
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IEEE Spectrum is IEEE's general-audience engineering magazine, running a dedicated, frequently updated AI section covering both catastrophic-risk and present-harms angles such as jobs, security and governance. It is IEEE's public-facing publication rather than a policy-only channel.
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Animated YouTube channel that turns rationality, effective altruism and existential risk writing into narrated videos for a general audience, including a recurring strand on AI alignment and safety. Run by a small, largely pseudonymous production team and funded through Patreon.
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Former chief executive of Open Philanthropy and co-founder of GiveWell, now writing independently on Cold Takes about AI forecasting, transformative AI timelines and what he calls the 'most important century'. Posts are also produced as an audio version, Cold Takes Audio.
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Psychiatrist writing Astral Codex Ten (formerly Slate Star Codex), a widely read newsletter covering rationality, science, medicine, economics and politics that returns regularly to AI risk, including arguments from sceptics as well as from the safety camp.
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UK not-for-profit funded by the online industry that produces parent guides on children's digital lives. Its current output includes age-banded AI conversation guides, Q&As and short videos on chatbot attachment and companion apps.
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US non-profit, formerly the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, that campaigns against marketing and manipulative design aimed at children. It runs campaigns on AI toys, AI slop on YouTube and a proposed pause on generative AI in schools.
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Set up by the family of Molly Russell to campaign on online harms and suicide prevention for young people. It presses Ofcom and platforms on Online Safety Act enforcement, including complaints about AI chatbots interacting with children.
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US non-profit that rates media and technology for families and educators. It publishes risk assessments of AI chatbots and companions, parent guides to generative AI and advocacy through its Youth AI Safety Institute.
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The federation of trade unions in England and Wales. Its AI programme publishes a draft AI and Employment Bill, reps' guides, reports and blogs on workplace AI, with output in 2026 running at roughly monthly intervals.
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UK trade union for performers and creative workers. Its Stop AI Stealing the Show campaign covers consent for digital scanning, AI clauses in the Pact agreement and lobbying on copyright, and has been in the press continuously since 2022.
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Technology journalist and author of Blood in the Machine, a history of the Luddites. His newsletter of the same name publishes one to two posts a week on AI, work and corporate power, including the AI Killed My Job series.
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US union for screen actors, broadcasters and recording artists. It campaigns for consent, compensation and control over digital replicas, backs state and federal deepfake laws and runs a podcast that regularly covers AI issues.
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Trade union for professional writers in film, television, theatre, games and books. It has published AI guidelines for members, called for an independent AI regulator and issued joint guidance on AI scams.
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Researcher at USC and Microsoft Research and author of Atlas of AI, which traces the minerals, energy, labour and data behind AI. Her visual work with Vladan Joler, including Calculating Empires, is shown in major museums.
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UK environmental charity whose Stop Dirty Data Centres campaign coordinates local groups opposing hyperscale data centres. It runs a petition, days of action and briefings on the energy, water and planning impacts of AI infrastructure.
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UK environmental campaigning charity. It publishes explainers on the water and energy use of AI data centres, a petition on data centres draining local resources, planning Q&As and a blog on AI and environmental justice.
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The UK's independent fact-checking charity, based in London. It publishes checks on political and health claims, tests AI chatbots against known false claims, and runs an AI tool used by fact-checkers worldwide.
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Technologist and human rights advocate who led WITNESS until August 2026, working on deepfakes, media authenticity and detection access. He is a frequent commentator in international press and on Bluesky.
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Author of Deepfakes (2020) and London-based commentator on generative AI. She writes the Industrial Intelligence newsletter on the economics and public trust of machine intelligence, and appears regularly in broadcast and business media.
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UK researcher and adviser on deepfakes and synthetic media, author of the 2019 State of Deepfakes report. He presented the BBC series The Future Will Be Synthesised and is a regular expert voice on CNN, BBC and NPR.
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UK civil liberties campaign group opposing live facial recognition, digital ID and state and retail surveillance. It publishes near-daily press statements and investigations, and runs petitions and legal challenges aimed at the general public.
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The National Council for Civil Liberties, a UK membership organisation founded in 1934. Its current campaigns include limits on police AI, opposition to facial recognition and mandatory digital ID, pursued through litigation, petitions and press work.
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London charity investigating surveillance and data exploitation by governments and companies. Recent public reports cover AI in warfare, facial recognition at football grounds and opaque AI recruitment software, alongside the Technology Pill podcast.
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British-born, US-based writer and podcaster. He hosts the weekly iHeart show Better Offline and writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, both sharply critical of the economics and claims of the generative AI industry.
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Independent US researcher and writer behind the reader-funded Citation Needed newsletter and Web3 Is Going Just Great. She covers cryptocurrency and the wider technology industry, including AI hype and its effects, for a general readership.
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Mathematician and broadcaster, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at Cambridge. She presents BBC and Bloomberg programmes on AI, including the 2026 documentary AI Confidential, co-hosts The Rest Is Science podcast and runs a YouTube channel.
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London researcher, broadcaster and author of Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics (2022). She co-presents Artificial Intelligence: Decoded on BBC News and contributes regularly to BBC World Service and BBC Breakfast.
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London analyst and former journalist who writes Exponential View, a weekly newsletter on AI, energy and exponential technologies. He also hosts the Exponentially podcast and video series for Bloomberg.
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UK science writer at Semafor and author of The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy and Everything Is Predictable. He reports frequently on AI developments and risk for a general readership and co-hosts the weekly Studies Show podcast with Stuart Ritchie.
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Berkeley creator bootcamp founded by Aella and Ronny Fernandez, funded partly by MIRI, in which fellows post a short video daily about AI extinction risk. The first cohort in July 2026 produced over 2,000 videos; a second cohort is planned for January 2027.
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Writer and survey researcher who co-founded the plzdontkillus bootcamp to bring AI extinction risk to mainstream short-form audiences. Her AI-risk output is on X, where she discusses the programme, rather than on her Substack, which covers other subjects.
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MIRI co-founder and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, which argues that building superintelligence on current methods would be fatal. He posts frequently on X, appears on major podcasts and in press, and mentored the first plzdontkillus cohort.
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Host of AI in Context, the YouTube channel produced by 80,000 Hours, which makes long-form explainers on scenarios such as AI 2027 and on model misbehaviour. The channel translates AI safety research into narrative video for general viewers.
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Science communicator behind Distilled Science, who fact-checks viral health and technology claims in short video. A first-cohort plzdontkillus fellow, he won its Most Clear AI Explainer award and has produced videos on AI data centre water use and deepfakes.
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Lifestyle creator with a large Instagram and TikTok following who joined the first plzdontkillus cohort. She has since posted short videos on AI developments, including the 2026 OpenAI security breach, to an audience that did not previously follow AI news.
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Weekly New York Times technology podcast that has covered AI safety incidents, child safety settlements and data centre politics alongside product news. Founding hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton announced their departure in mid 2026, with the Times recruiting new hosts.
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Technology columnist and Hard Fork co-host who is leaving the New York Times to start an independent AI media company with Casey Newton. His book The AGI Chronicles (October 2026) and newsletter document the race to build superintelligence and its risks.
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BBC News technology editor reporting across television, radio and online on AI, cyber security and digital regulation. Her explainers and interviews bring AI risk questions to a mainstream UK audience in plain language.
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Freelance technology journalist and author of How AI Ate the World, writing for Scientific American, New Scientist, Wired and the BBC. Recent pieces cover rogue AI agents, the OpenAI Hugging Face breach and AI slop for general readers.
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Senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review with a computer science PhD and several hundred articles on the field. His reporting weighs near-term harms such as deepfakes and chatbot dependency against longer-term claims, for a broad readership.
Germany
Physicist and science YouTuber publishing several videos a week on science and technology news, with frequent AI segments. She scrutinises AGI timelines, AI in research and industry claims with a sceptical but not dismissive stance.
United States
New York Times opinion columnist whose interview podcast regularly turns to AI, including episodes with Helen Toner on models breaking containment and on agents in the economy. He frames AI risk as a political and governance question for a general audience.
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Host of the weekly Dwarkesh Podcast, long-form interviews with AI researchers, safety figures and lab leaders. Recent episodes with Ajeya Cotra and Dylan Patel examine agent misuse and compute concentration, aimed at a large lay audience.
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YouTube channel by Drew Spartz publishing fortnightly narrative videos on AGI, including a widely shared takeover scenario and coverage of lab safety experiments. It translates AI safety research into accessible storytelling for a large general audience.
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AI news YouTuber posting several videos a week on frontier model releases, AGI debates and safety papers from the major labs. He presents risk findings to a mass audience under a stated don't-panic framing, alongside a daily newsletter.
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Journalist-owned outlet and weekly podcast from Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole and Joseph Cox. Reporting focuses on AI surveillance, deepfakes and platform abuse, with recent stories on police use of AI and AI-generated political video.
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Canadian futurist and founder of the tech education initiative WAYE, based in New York, who makes short-form video, a newsletter and the weekly podcast I've Got Questions. Her content explains AI's effects on jobs, education and power to a mainstream audience.
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Former poker champion and physicist who hosts the Win-Win podcast, makes YouTube explainers and posts frequently on X. She frames AI competition as a game-theory trap, using the Moloch concept to explain why a race to build superintelligence harms everyone.
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Journalist and staff writer at The Argument, previously of Vox's Future Perfect. She writes regular reported essays on AI policy, jobs and industry accountability, including the OpenAI equity story, for general readers rather than specialists.
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Former OpenAI safety researcher who writes the Clear-Eyed AI newsletter and appears on mainstream podcasts such as Adam Conover's. His posts translate lab safety practice into plain-language arguments on testing, regulation and keeping AI under control.
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MIT physicist, author of Life 3.0 and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, listed separately. As an individual he posts frequently on X and appears widely in broadcast media, arguing against building superintelligence and promoting cross-partisan coalitions.
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Writer of Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily newsletter including a weekly AI roundup. His posts compile and annotate AI news, safety incidents and policy debates at length, serving as a reference digest for readers following alignment and governance.
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Emmy-winning former television journalist who hosts For Humanity, an AI risk podcast for regular people, now published under The AI Risk Network. Episodes cover extinction risk, data centre opposition and lab insiders, aiming to make AI risk a kitchen-table conversation.
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Pseudonymous YouTuber with a PhD in computer security who works as an AI research scientist and posts weekly videos. The channel explains AI safety incidents, security threats and societal impacts in accessible terms for a general audience.
United States
Full-time writer, supported by a Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) grant, best known for pieces arguing that public claims about AI data centres' energy and water use are often exaggerated. Also writes on animal welfare and effective altruism; named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.
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Brooklyn-based freelance journalist covering the intersection of money, power and artificial intelligence, including AI policy, the industry's economic and labour impact, and AI safety institutes, for outlets including the New York Times, the Guardian, Time and the Nation. Author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us — and How to Stop It (2026).