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AI safety map

Four sources of risk, five ways a hazard arises, six ways it escalates, and six outcomes. Click any box to trace what feeds it and what it leads to, or follow one of the paths from the lecture.

Lecture paths
AI safety map A left-to-right flow diagram. Four sources lead to five ways hazards arise, then six ways they escalate, then six outcomes. Red connectors mark worrisome paths, gray connectors mark more bounded ones, and green connectors lead to an optimistic outcome.

Scroll the map sideways to see every column.

Worrisome: severe or hard to reverse Real, but more bounded Upside Selected path

The map is a teaching device, not a forecast. Links show plausible routes from one stage to the next; their color reflects how severe or reversible the end state is, not how likely it is.