A balanced mix of conceptual arguments and formal results.
Uncontainability research index
A navigable database designed to give you the most familiar orientation to formal work on the boundaries of AGI containability.
A balanced mix of conceptual arguments and formal results.
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Most AI safety research asks how to control and align advanced systems. Some researchers ask whether that is possible at all and are working to prove it formally.
This index collects the strongest work toward those formal results, organized so that researchers, policymakers, and funders can each find what matters most to their domain. It is curated and growing, not comprehensive. If you know of work that belongs here, reach out.
Beyond the index, the Project organizes collaborations and workshops, supports researchers in securing funding, translates results into concrete policy recommendations, and is developing a lecture series and educational materials that make the formal foundations accessible to new audiences.
Although we prioritize formal methods, we use the word “uncontainability” informally. We include in the project attempts at proving the impossibility of all of the following: preventing an AGI/ASI from doing unanticipated harm, keeping AGI/ASI contained inside a hardware and software system, and preventing a rogue AGI/ASI from consolidating unbounded physical resources to its own use and replication.
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The Uncontainability Project has been supported by a small grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund. If this work is useful to you or your organization, donations help to sustain and grow the project, maintain the database, curate and grade new entries, coordinate workshops, build educational materials, and connect researchers across fields.
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