Reading List - by Julian Stastny - Redwood Research blog

(Last updated Jul 28th 2025)

(Last updated Jul 28th 2025) Section 1 is a quick guide to the key ideas in AI control, aimed at readers who want to get up to speed as quickly as possible. Section 2 is an extensive guide to almost all of our writing on AI risk, aimed at those who want to gain a deep understanding of Redwood’s worldview. The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled (Buck Shlegeris and Ryan Greenblatt, May 2024): This is our original essay explaining why we think AI control is a valuable research direction. AI Catastrophes And Rogue Deployments (Buck Shlegeris, Jun 2024): We often refer to…

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