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Introducing AI StopWatch. It’s easier to speak up when you know what’s going on. It’s easier to see what’s coming when you know what’s already here. What is now AI StopWatch began as an internal newsletter at @MIRIBerkeley. It helped us to not just keep up with the technology itself, but with what people outside our bubble were saying about it. As an experiment, we thought we’d try to share. At aistop.watch, we post updates and commentary about AI, and the discussions around it, seven days a week. We’ve worked hard to make a site we are excited to share with everyone — our moms and our neighbors, not just our fellow news junkies and tech geeks. Subscribe to our Notes feed to read our dispatches one at a time, the moment we finish them. Or wait for us to compile them in the Daily Digest at the end of the workday. Or catch them all in the Podcast version a few hours later. Have any or all of these delivered to your inbox. Many who thought they knew MIRI best will be surprised that so much of our coverage has no direct connection to the threat of human extinction. While extinction remains our special focus — the problem that must be addressed no matter what other urgent issues AI brings — this project has helped us appreciate that few people, if any, will have the luxury of worrying only about extinction. Not even us. So come look at cool/scary robot videos with us. Gripe with us about scams and slop. Fret with us about our kids’ education. Swap tips with us about vibecoding, and try to outguess us about orbital data centers. The problems and possibilities all serve to remind us how much we have to protect, and they make for great conversation starters. We think you’ll come away more concerned about extinction, not less, and that you’ll feel more equipped to talk about it. Yes, we believe the current situation with AI is very dangerous. But we don’t think it’s hopeless! When enough people realize that the race to artificial superintelligence is real, lethal, and preventable, stopping it might not even be that hard. So we hope you’ll join us on our Watch. Where there’s life, there’s hope.