After a few months of open beta, the AI Alignment Forum is ready to launch. It is a new website built by the team behind LessWrong 2.0, to help create a new hub for technical AI Alignment research and discussion. This is an in-progress FAQ about the new Forum.

What are the five most important highlights about the AI Alignment Forum in this FAQ?

The vision for the forum is of a single online hub for alignment researchers to have conversations about all ideas in the field...
...while also providing a better onboarding experience for people getting involved with alignment research than exists currently.
There are three new sequences focusing on some of the major approaches to alignment, which will update daily for the coming 6-8 weeks.

For non-members and future researchers, the place to interact with the content is LessWrong.com, where all Forum content will be crossposted.
The site will continue to be improved in the long-term, as the team comes to better understands the needs and goals of researchers.

What is the purpose of the AI Alignment Forum?

Our first priority is obviously to avert catastrophic outcomes from unaligned Artificial Intelligence. We think the best way to achieve this at the margin is to build an online-hub for AI Alignment research, which both allows the existing top researchers in the field to talk about cutting-edge ideas and approaches, as well as the onboarding of new researchers and contributors.

We think that to solve the AI Alignment problem, the field of AI Alignment research needs to be able to effectively coordinate a large number of researchers from a large number of organisations, with significantly different approaches. Two decades ago we might have invested heavily in the development of a conference or a journal, but with the onset of the internet, an online forum with its ability to do much faster and more comprehensive forms of peer-review seemed to us like a more promising way to help the field form a good set of standards and methodologies.

Who is the AI Alignment Forum for?

There exists an interconnected community of Alignment researchers in industry, academia, and elsewhere, who have spent many years thinking carefully about a vari...

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