The History of AI Safety
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September 9, 2026
How did worrying that your invention might kill everyone become part of the job of building it? An animated explainer tracing AI safety from Norbert Wiener's 1960 warning and Asimov's fictional Three Laws, through Bostrom and the 'paperclip maximizer,' the founding of OpenAI and DeepMind's safety team, RLHF, and the post-ChatGPT rush of AI Safety Institutes and the Bletchley Park summit.