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Alphabetical index of 450 bibliography entries as site cards — each links to citing chapters and appendices.
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A17
- Abbeel, 2004 — Apprenticeship Learning via Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- Abiri, 2025 — Public Constitutional {AI}
- Africa, 2026 — Thousand-Dimensional Structure
- Agency}, 2015 — {VW} Notice of Violation for Clean Air Act Violations
- Ahn, 2022 — Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances
- Albantakis, 2023 — Integrated Information Theory 4.0: Formulating the Properties of Phenomenal Existence in Physical Terms
- Albantakis, 2023 — Integrated Information Theory 4.0
- Alshiekh, 2018 — Safe Reinforcement Learning via Shielding
- Amodei, 2016 — Concrete Problems in {AI} Safety
- Anderljung, 2023 — Frontier {AI} Regulation: Managing Emerging Risks to Public Safety
- Anderson, 1993 — Value in Ethics and Economics
- Angelaki, 2022 — The head direction cell network: attractor dynamics underlying integrative computation
- Armstrong, 2010 — Thinking Inside the Box: Controlling and Using an Oracle {AI}
- Arora, 2021 — A Survey of Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Challenges, Methods and Progress
- Aubin, 1991 — Viability Theory
- Aubin, 2011 — Viability Theory: New Directions
- Awad, 2018 — The Moral Machine Experiment
B35
- Bai, 2022 — Constitutional {AI}: Harmlessness from {AI} Feedback
- Bai, 2022 — Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- Baier, 2007 — Somatoparaphrenia: a case report
- Bansal, 2017 — Hamilton--Jacobi Reachability: A Brief Overview and Recent Advances
- Barnett, 2009 — Granger Causality and Transfer Entropy Are Equivalent for Gaussian Variables
- Barsalou, 1999 — Perceptual Symbol Systems
- Beck, 2025 — Dynamic Markov Blanket Detection
- Beer, 2014 — The Cognitive Domain of a Glider in the Game of Life
- Bentham, 1789 — An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- Berkenkamp, 2017 — Safe Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Stability Guarantees
- Bertschinger, 2008 — Information and Closure in Systems Theory
- Bialek, 2001 — Predictability, Complexity, and Learning
- Biehl, 2016 — Towards Information Based Spatiotemporal Patterns as a Foundation for Agent Representation in Dynamical Systems
- Biehl, 2021 — A Technical Critique of Some Parts of the Free Energy Principle
- Biehl, 2022 — Interpreting Systems as Solving {POMDP}s: A Step Towards a Formal Understanding of Agency
- Blackmore, 2004 — Consciousness: An Introduction
- Blanchini, 1999 — Set Invariance in Control
- Blanke, 2012 — Multisensory brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness
- Bloomfield, 2012 — Safety-Critical Systems, Risk and Safety Management
- Bonneaud, 2022 — Coevolutionary theory of hosts and parasites
- Bostrom, 2014 — Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- Bourgon, 2024 — {MIRI} 2024 Mission and Strategy Update
- Bruineberg, 2021 — The Emperor's New Markov Blankets
- Btesh, 2022 — Redressing the Emperor in Causal Clothing
- Buckingham, 2022 — Coevolutionary theory of hosts and parasites
- Burgess, 2019 — MONet: Unsupervised Scene Decomposition and Representation
- Burja, 2018 — On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge
- Burks, 1969 — Von Neumann's Self-Reproducing Automata
- Butlin, 2023 — Consciousness in {Artificial Intelligence}: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
- Butlin, 2025 — Principles for Responsible {AI} Consciousness Research
- Byrnes, 2024 — Neuroscience of Human Social Instincts: A Sketch
- Byrnes, 2025 — Social Drives 2: ``Approval Reward'', from Norm-Enforcement to Status-Seeking
- Byrnes, 2025 — Social Drives 1: ``Sympathy Reward'', from Compassion to Dehumanization
- Byrnes, 2025 — Perils of Under- vs Over-Sculpting AGI Desires
- Byrnes, 2026 — ``Act-Based Approval-Directed Agents'', for IDA Skeptics
C25
- Cangelosi, 2001 — The Adaptive Advantage of Symbolic Theft over Sensorimotor Toil: Grounding Language in Perceptual Categories
- Carpenter, 2010 — Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the {FDA}
- Casali, 2013 — A theoretically based index of consciousness independent of sensory processing and behavior
- Casper, 2023 — Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- Chalmers, 1996 — The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
- Charlesworth, 2009 — Effective population size and patterns of molecular evolution and variation
- Christiano, 2017 — Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences
- Christiano, 2018 — Corrigibility
- Christiano, 2018 — Supervising Strong Learners by Amplifying Weak Experts
- Christiano, 2019 — What Failure Looks Like
- Christiano, 2021 — {ARC}'s First Technical Report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge
- Chudek, 2011 — Culture--gene coevolution, prestige and conformity
- Clarke, 2022 — Hypothalamic control of reproduction by gonadotropin-releasing hormone: recent advances
- Coffee, 2006 — Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate Governance
- Collins, 1974 — The {TEA} Set: Tacit Knowledge and Scientific Networks
- Commission}, 2011 — The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
- community}, 2023 — {KANSI}: Known Algorithm Not Susceptible to Improvement
- Conant, 1970 — Every Good Regulator of a System Must Be a Model of That System
- Consortium}, 2025 — International {AI} Safety Report
- Courret, 2019 — Meiotic drive mechanisms: lessons from \emph{Drosophila}
- Cover, 2006 — Elements of Information Theory
- Critch, 2020 — AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety (ARCHES)
- Critch, 2021 — What Multipolar Failure Looks Like, and Robust Agent-Agnostic Processes
- Critch, 2022 — Boundaries, Part 1: A Key Missing Concept from Utility Theory
- Critch, 2022 — Boundaries, Part 3a: Defining Boundaries as Directed Markov Blankets
D21
- Da Costa, 2021 — Bayesian Mechanics for Stationary Processes
- Dalrymple, 2024 — Towards Guaranteed Safe {AI}: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable {AI} Systems
- Davis, 2017 — Brain imaging tests for chronic pain: medical, legal and ethical issues and recommendations
- Daw, 2006 — Cortical substrates for model-based vs. model-free learning
- De Blanc, 2011 — Ontological Crises in Artificial Agents' Value Systems
- Dehaene, 2001 — Towards a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness: basic evidence and a workspace framework
- Dehaene, 2014 — Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
- Demski, 2019 — The Parable of Predict-{O}-Matic
- Demski, 2019 — Selection vs Control
- Demski, 2019 — Embedded Agency
- Demski, 2023 — Agent Boundaries Aren't Markov Blankets
- Dennett, 1971 — Intentional systems
- Dennett, 1981 — True Believers: The Intentional Strategy and Why It Works
- Dennett, 1987 — The Intentional Stance
- Dennett, 1991 — Consciousness Explained
- Descartes, 1637 — Discourse on the Method, with \emph{La Dioptrique}, \emph{Les Météores}, and \emph{La Géométrie}
- Descartes, 1641 — Meditations on First Philosophy
- Descartes, 1641 — Meditations on First Philosophy
- Descartes, 1996 — Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies
- Dewey, 1938 — Logic: The Theory of Inquiry
- Driess, 2023 — PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
E10
- Eckersley, 2019 — Impossibility and Uncertainty Theorems in {AI} Value Alignment
- Edelman, 2025 — Full-Stack Alignment: Co-Aligning {AI} and Institutions with Thick Models of Value
- Ehrsson, 2004 — That’s my hand! Activity in premotor cortex reflects feeling of ownership of a limb
- Eigen, 1971 — Selforganization of Matter and the Evolution of Biological Macromolecules
- Eisenberger, 2003 — Does rejection hurt?
- Elster, 1983 — Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality
- Evans, 2003 — The Coming of the Third Reich
- Everitt, 2016 — Safeguarding {AI} Safety: Self-Modification, Utility Preservation, and Corrigibility
- Everitt, 2019 — Reward Tampering Problems and Solutions in Reinforcement Learning: A Causal Influence Diagram Perspective
- Everitt, 2021 — Agent Incentives: A Causal Perspective
F17
- Fallenstein, 2015 — Vingean Reflection: Reliable Reasoning for Self-Improving Agents
- Fehr, 2002 — Altruistic punishment
- Finlay, 1980 — Politics in Renaissance Venice
- Fleming, 2014 — How to measure metacognition
- Fleming, 2014 — How to measure metacognition
- Force}, 2012 — International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism \& Proliferation
- Foundation}, 2007 — {GNU} General Public License, Version 3
- Frankfurt, 1971 — Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
- Frankish, 2016 — Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness
- Franklin, 1980 — Evolutionary change in small populations
- Frässle, 2014 — Binocular rivalry: frontal activity relates to introspection and action but not to perception
- Freeman, 2023 — Evolving concepts of gliogenesis: a look way back and ahead to the next 25 years
- Friston, 2010 — The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?
- Friston, 2010 — The Free-Energy Principle: A Unified Brain Theory?
- Friston, 2021 — Some Interesting Observations on the Free Energy Principle
- Friston, 2022 — Designing EFE Agents: The Free-Energy Principle and Active Inference
- Fuller, 1969 — The Morality of Law
G21
- Gao, 2022 — Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization
- Garrabrant, 2017 — Logical induction
- Garrabrant, 2021 — Cartesian Frames
- Gazzaniga, 2005 — Forty-five years of split-brain research and still going strong
- Geritz, 1998 — Evolutionarily singular strategies and the adaptive growth and branching of the evolutionary tree
- Gerrans, 2024 — Pain, suffering and the self: an active allostatic inference explanation
- Goertzel, 2012 — Nine Ways to Bias Open-Source {AGI} Toward Friendliness
- Goodfellow, 2015 — Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
- Goodhart, 1984 — Problems of Monetary Management: The {UK} Experience
- Gordon, 2020 — Movement, encounter rate, and collective behavior in ant colonies
- Goyal, 2021 — Recurrent Independent Mechanisms
- Graham, 2011 — Mapping the Moral Domain
- Graziano, 2013 — Consciousness and the Social Brain
- Greenblatt, 2024 — Alignment Faking in Large Language Models
- Greff, 2019 — IODINE: Multi-object representation learning with iterative variational inference
- Griesemer, 2000 — Reproduction and the Reduction of Genetics
- Griesemer, 2016 — Reproduction in Complex Life Cycles: Toward a Developmental Reaction Norms Perspective
- Group}, 2021 — {GSN} Community Standard Version 3
- Gruber, 2016 — Post-learning hippocampal dynamics promote preferential retention of rewarding events
- Gruen, 1995 — The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
- Guyenet, 2015 — Neural control of breathing and CO2 homeostasis
H28
- Habermas, 1984 — The Theory of Communicative Action
- Hadfield-Menell, 2016 — Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- Hadfield-Menell, 2017 — The Off-Switch Game
- Hafner, 2019 — Learning Latent Dynamics for Planning from Pixels
- Hafner, 2023 — Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
- Hamilton, 1964 — The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour
- Hanson, 2021 — If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare
- Hanson, 2026 — The Past and Future of Good and Evil
- Hardt, 2016 — Strategic Classification
- Hardy, 1948 — Studies on pain: discrimination of differences in intensity of a pain stimulus as a basis of a scale of pain intensity
- Harnad, 1990 — The Symbol Grounding Problem
- Hassabis, 2026 — A Framework for Frontier {AI} and the Dawning of a New Age
- Hauser, 2018 — Precision-weighted prediction errors in the human dopamine system
- Hauskrecht, 2000 — Value-Function Approximations for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
- Heitzig, 2016 — Topology of Sustainable Management of Dynamical Systems with Desirable States: From Defining Planetary Boundaries to Safe Operating Spaces in the {Earth} System
- Heitzig, 2025 — Model-Based Soft Maximization of Suitable Metrics of Long-Term Human Power
- Helliwell, 2024 — World Happiness Report 2024
- Henderson, 2025 — The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence Terms of Use Restrictions
- Hendrycks, 2021 — Aligning {AI} With Shared Human Values
- Henrich, 2001 — The evolution of prestige
- Herkert, 2020 — The Boeing 737 {MAX}: Lessons for Engineering Ethics
- Hermisson, 2002 — Mutation--selection balance: ancestry, load, and maximum principle
- Holling, 1973 — Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems
- Hordijk, 2010 — Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life
- Hovenkamp, 2022 — Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application
- Hubinger, 2019 — Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced Machine Learning Systems
- Hubinger, 2023 — Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research
- Hubinger, 2023 — Conditioning Predictive Models: Risks and Strategies
I4
- Iadecola, 2023 — Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia: JACC scientific statement
- Institute}, 2024 — AI Alignment Research Guide
- Institute}, 2026 — Cheating Behaviour in Frontier Model Evaluations
- Irving, 2018 — {AI} Safety via Debate
J2
- Jaques, 2019 — Social Influence as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Justice, 2010 — Horizontal Merger Guidelines
K32
- Kaelbling, 1998 — Planning and Acting in Partially Observable Stochastic Domains
- Kanai, 2015 — A neurobiological perspective on predictive coding and {Bayesian} inference
- Kaplan, 2020 — Scaling laws for neural language models
- Karraza-Samper, 2024 — Metabolic coupling in the brain: neural-glial interactions in energy homeostasis
- Kasirzadeh, 2025 — Beyond Preferences in {AI} Alignment
- Keaveney, 2007 — The Army in the Roman Revolution
- Kelly, 1998 — Safety and Closure
- Kelly, 2004 — The Goal Structuring Notation -- A Safety Argument Notation
- Kelty, 2008 — Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
- Kenton, 2022 — Discovering Agents
- Kingston, 2007 — Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720--1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis
- Kipf, 2020 — Contrastive Learning of Structured World Models
- Kirchhoff, 2018 — The Markov Blankets of Life: Autonomy, Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle
- Klyubin, 2005 — Empowerment: A Universal Agent-Centric Measure of Control
- Knoch, 2006 — Disruption of right dlPFC decreases norm compliance
- Koch, 2016 — Neural correlates of consciousness: progress and problems
- Kolchinsky, 2017 — Semantic Information, Autonomous Agency, and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
- Kolchinsky, 2018 — Semantic Information, Autonomous Agency and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics
- Komanduru, 2019 — On the Computational Complexity of Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- Korea}, 2024 — Seoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative, and Inclusive {AI}
- Koren, 2021 — Insular cortex neurons encode and retrieve specific immune responses
- Kosfeld, 2005 — Oxytocin increases trust
- Kosoy, 2022 — {PreDCA}
- Krakauer, 2020 — The Information Theory of Individuality
- Krakovna, 2018 — Penalizing Side Effects Using Stepwise Relative Reachability
- Kroszner, 2014 — Regulation and Deregulation of the {U.S.} Banking Industry: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Future
- Kuhn, 2025 — Humanism: An Obituary
- Kulveit, 2025 — The Pando Problem: Rethinking AI Individuality
- Kulveit, 2025 — Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental {AI} Development
- Kumar, 2021 — {P$_2$B}: Plan to {P$_2$B} Better
- Kwon, 2026 — {AIs with Secret Loyalties are a Serious but Addressable Threat}
- Kysar, 2010 — Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity
L18
- Lakin, 2023 — Formalizing Boundaries with Markov Blankets
- Lane, 1973 — Venice, A Maritime Republic
- Langosco, 2022 — Goal Misgeneralization in Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Larsen, 2026 — {AI 2040}: Plan~A
- Law, 2023 — Can a Dual Mandate Be a Model for the Global Governance of {AI}?
- Leake, 2023 — Formalizing the {QACI} alignment goal
- Leike, 2018 — Scalable Agent Alignment via Reward Modeling: A Research Direction
- Leveson, 2011 — Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety
- Levine, 2018 — Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference: Tutorial and Review
- Li, 2020 — Outcomes of hemispherectomy in adults and children: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Li, 2021 — Mapping cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic loops: implications for reward learning
- Lin, 2011 — Functional identification of an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus
- Lindahl, 2017 — The varieties of contemplative experience: A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists
- Littman, 2001 — Predictive Representations of State
- Lizier, 2010 — Differentiating Information Transfer and Causal Effect
- Locatello, 2020 — Object-Centric Learning with Slot Attention
- Long, 2024 — Taking {AI} Welfare Seriously
- Lyu, 2021 — A causal loop within the precuneus integrates default-mode and executive networks
M19
- Manheim, 2018 — Categorizing Variants of Goodhart's Law
- Maniscalco, 2012 — A signal detection theoretic approach for estimating metacognitive sensitivity from confidence ratings
- Maturana, 1980 — Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
- Maynard Smith, 1995 — The Major Transitions in Evolution
- Mazuzan, 1985 — Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation, 1946--1962
- McGregor, 2025 — Formalising the Intentional Stance I: Attributing Goals and Beliefs to Stochastic Processes
- Melzack, 1965 — Pain mechanisms: a new theory
- Melzack, 1975 — The {McGill} Pain Questionnaire: major properties and scoring methods
- Melzack, 2001 — Pain and the neuromatrix in the brain
- Menon, 2023 — The salience network, dopaminergic precision signals, and psychosis
- Metzinger, 2003 — Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
- Miller, 1956 — The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information
- Miller, 2015 — Working memory capacity: Limits on the bandwidth of cognition
- Miller, 2025 — Precedents for the Unprecedented: Historical Analogies for Thirteen Artificial Superintelligence Risks
- Millidge, 2020 — Deep Active Inference as Variational Policy Gradients
- Millière, 2018 — Psychedelics, Meditation, and Self-Consciousness
- Morales, 2018 — Domain-general and domain-specific patterns of activity supporting metacognition in human prefrontal cortex
- Murray, 1996 — The Global Burden of Disease
- Murray, 2013 — Measuring the global burden of disease
N6
- Nakano, 2021 — WebGPT: Browser-Assisted Question-Answering with Human Feedback
- Nayebi, 2025 — Core Safety Values for Provably Corrigible Agents
- Near, 1985 — Organizational Dissidence: The Case of Whistle-Blowing
- Ng, 2000 — Algorithms for Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- Ngo, 2022 — The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective
- Nissenbaum, 2010 — Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
O6
- Oizumi, 2014 — From the phenomenology to the mechanisms of consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0
- Olson, 2023 — Personal Identity
- Omohundro, 2008 — The Basic {AI} Drives
- Organization}, 2025 — Disability-adjusted life year ({DALY})
- Orseau, 2016 — Safely Interruptible Agents
- Orseau, 2018 — Agents and Devices: A Relative Definition of Agency
P22
- Pain}, 2020 — {IASP} Terminology: Pain
- Pan, 2024 — Feedback Loops With Language Models Drive In-Context Reward Hacking
- Panksepp, 1998 — Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions
- Papkou, 2019 — The genomic basis of Red Queen dynamics during rapid reciprocal host--pathogen coevolution
- Park, 2024 — {AI} Deception: A Survey of Examples, Risks, and Potential Solutions
- Parliament, 2024 — Regulation ({EU}) 2024/1689 Laying Down Harmonised Rules on Artificial Intelligence ({AI} Act)
- Parr, 2020 — Markov Blankets, Information Geometry and Stochastic Thermodynamics
- Parr, 2022 — Active inference: the free energy principle in mind, brain, and behavior
- Patton, 2023 — The suprachiasmatic nucleus
- Pearl, 2009 — Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference
- Peltzman, 1976 — Toward a More General Theory of Regulation
- Perdomo, 2020 — Performative Prediction
- Perrow, 1984 — Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
- Pesavento, 1995 — An Implementation of von Neumann's Self-Reproducing Machine
- Pettit, 1997 — Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government
- Pihlakas, 2025 — Research agenda for training aligned {AIs} using concave utility functions following the principles of homeostasis and diminishing returns
- Pihlakas, 2025 — Systematic runaway-optimiser-like {LLM} failure modes on biologically and economically aligned {AI} safety benchmarks
- Polanyi, 1966 — The Tacit Dimension
- Popa, 2018 — Cerebellum, predictions and errors
- Power, 1997 — The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification
- Preuss, 2011 — The Implications of ``Eternity Clauses'': The German Experience
- Prinz, 2012 — The Attended Intermediate-Level Representation Theory of consciousness
Q1
- Quality}, 2020 — National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations
R19
- Rafailov, 2023 — Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
- Raleigh, 1991 — Serotonergic mechanisms in vervet dominance
- Ramachandran, 2007 — Bayesian Inverse Reinforcement Learning
- Ramstead, 2022 — Bayesian mechanics
- Rawls, 1971 — A Theory of Justice
- Reason, 1997 — Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents
- Redinbaugh, 2020 — Thalamus modulates consciousness via layer-specific control of cortex
- Rein, 2026 — Red-Teaming {Anthropic}'s Internal Agent Monitoring Systems
- Resilience}, 2026 — Scheming in the Wild: Detecting Real-World {AI} Scheming Incidents with Open-Source Intelligence
- Richardson, 1996 — A Discovery Algorithm for Directed Cyclic Graphs
- Rizzolatti, 2004 — The mirror-neuron system
- Rockstr{\"o}m, 2009 — A Safe Operating Space for Humanity
- Rosas, 2020 — Reconciling Emergence: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Identify Causal Emergence in Multivariate Data
- Rosas, 2020 — An Operational Information Decomposition via Synergistic Disclosure
- Rosenthal, 2005 — Consciousness and Mind
- Rost, 2010 — The Corporate Governance of {Benedictine} Abbeys
- Russell, 2014 — Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks
- Russell, 2019 — Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
- Ryle, 1949 — The Concept of Mind
S42
- Saint-Pierre, 1994 — Approximation of the Viability Kernel
- Sajid, 2021 — Active Inference: Demystified and Compared
- Salge, 2014 — Empowerment: a universal agent-centric measure of control
- Salge, 2014 — Empowerment as Replacement for the Three Laws of Robotics
- Sapolsky, 2004 — Social status and health in humans and other animals
- Sarter, 2023 — Cholinergic genetics of visual attention: human and mouse choline transporter capacity variants and attention
- Sch{\"o}lkopf, 2021 — Toward Causal Representation Learning
- Scheffer, 2001 — Catastrophic Shifts in Ecosystems
- Scheffer, 2009 — Early-Warning Signals for Critical Transitions
- Schick, 2023 — Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
- Schiff, 2007 — Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury
- Scholz, 2016 — rTPJ in attention and social cognition: combined fMRI--TMS
- Scholz, 2023 — Right temporoparietal junction contributions to theory of mind in autism: a developmental perspective
- Schooler, 2002 — Re-representing consciousness: dissociations between experience and meta-consciousness
- Schreiber, 2000 — Measuring Information Transfer
- Schultz, 1997 — A neural substrate of prediction and reward
- Schwartz, 2012 — An Overview of the {Schwartz} Theory of Basic Values
- Schwartz, 2012 — Refining the Theory of Basic Individual Values
- Searle, 1980 — Minds, Brains, and Programs
- Seidl, 2008 — Walking on inclines: how do desert ants monitor slope and step length
- Sen, 1999 — Development as Freedom
- Sen, 2009 — The Idea of Justice
- Shah, 2022 — Goal Misgeneralization: Why Correct Specifications Aren't Enough For Correct Goals
- Shalizi, 2001 — Computational Mechanics: Pattern and Prediction, Structure and Simplicity
- Shlegeris, 2023 — AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion
- Singer, 2011 — Practical Ethics
- Soares, 2015 — Agent Foundations for Aligning Machine Intelligence with Human Interests: A Technical Research Agenda
- Soares, 2015 — The Value Learning Problem
- Soares, 2015 — Corrigibility
- Soares, 2022 — On How Various Plans Miss the Hard Bits of the Alignment Challenge
- Soares, 2022 — A Central AI Alignment Problem: Capabilities Generalization, and the Sharp Left Turn
- Standards, 2023 — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework ({AI} {RMF} 1.0)
- Steels, 2008 — The Symbol Grounding Problem Has Been Solved. So What's Next?
- Steffen, 2015 — Planetary Boundaries: Guiding Human Development on a Changing Planet
- Sterman, 2000 — Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
- Stigler, 1971 — The Theory of Economic Regulation
- Strawson, 2006 — Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism
- Strogatz, 2015 — Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
- Strouse, 2016 — The Information Bottleneck and Intelligent Agents
- Susser, 2019 — Technology, Autonomy, and Manipulation
- Szathm{'a}ry, 1995 — The Major Evolutionary Transitions
- Szostak, 2001 — Synthesizing Life
T16
- Taddeo, 2005 — Solving the Symbol Grounding Problem: A Critical Review of Fifteen Years of Research
- Tan, 2016 — Warm-sensitive neurons that control body temperature
- Taylor, 2015 — Quantilizers: A Safer Alternative to Maximizers for Limited Optimization
- TeBrake, 2002 — Taming the Waterwolf: Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages
- Thacker, 2012 — First-person neuroscience and the understanding of pain
- Thaler, 2008 — Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
- Thornley, 2023 — The Shutdown Problem: An AI Engineering Puzzle for Decision Theorists
- Tishby, 1999 — The Information Bottleneck Method
- Tononi, 2014 — Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
- Trotter, 2014 — Mutation--Selection Balance
- Tschinkel, 2011 — The organization of foraging in the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta
- Turchin, 2020 — Classification of Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Artificial Intelligence
- Turner, 2019 — Conservative Agency via Attainable Utility Preservation
- Turner, 2021 — Optimal Policies Tend to Seek Power
- Turner, 2022 — Shard Theory Overview
- Turner, 2022 — Reward is not the optimization target
U1
- users}, 2026 — Production Destruction Incidents Reported via {GitHub} Issues and Public Writeups (aggregated cluster)
V4
- Vaughan, 1996 — The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at {NASA}
- Venkatesan, 2015 — Anosognosia for hemiplegia: the role of body representation in awareness of paralysis
- Virgo, 2021 — Interpreting Dynamical Systems as Bayesian Reasoners
- von Neumann, 1966 — Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
W19
- Wager, 2013 — An {fMRI}-based neurologic signature of physical pain
- Walker, 2004 — Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social--Ecological Systems
- Wall, 1999 — Pain: The Science of Suffering
- Wang, 2013 — Cooperation and Age Structure in Societies of Face-to-Face Interaction
- Weber, 2004 — The Success of Open Source
- Weiller, 2022 — Two converging cortical processing streams constitute the dual-loop model of higher cognition
- Weiller, 2025 — The meta-loop: a dual-loop fusion of lateral and medial brain networks underpins internal-external integration
- Wen, 2024 — Language Models Learn to Mislead Humans via {RLHF}
- Wentworth, 2020 — The Pointers Problem: Human Values Are A Function Of Humans' Latent Variables
- Wentworth, 2021 — Selection Theorems: A Program For Understanding Agents
- Wentworth, 2022 — Clarifying the Agent-Like Structure Problem
- Wentworth, 2023 — Natural Latents: The Math
- White, 2010 — Markets: The Credit Rating Agencies
- White, 2022 — Superior colliculus encodes visual saliency before the primary visual cortex
- Whitehead, 2010 — Health outcomes in economic evaluation: the {QALY} and utilities
- Wilke, 2001 — Evolution of digital organisms at high mutation rates leads to survival of the flattest
- Woodward, 1996 — Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't, and Why
- Woolley, 2010 — Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups
- Woolley, 2010 — Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups
Y18
- Yang, 2018 — Cooperation percolation in spatial evolutionary games
- Yao, 2023 — ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models
- Yeung, 2017 — Hypernudge: Big Data as a Mode of Regulation by Design
- Yudkowsky, 2004 — Coherent Extrapolated Volition
- Yudkowsky, 2007 — The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
- Yudkowsky, 2008 — Nonperson Predicates
- Yudkowsky, 2009 — Money: The Unit of Caring
- Yudkowsky, 2009 — Value is Fragile
- Yudkowsky, 2010 — Timeless Decision Theory
- Yudkowsky, 2011 — In Favour of a Selective CEV Initial Dynamic
- Yudkowsky, 2013 — Tiling Agents for Self-Modifying AI
- Yudkowsky, 2015 — How An Algorithm Feels From Inside
- Yudkowsky, 2016 — Nearest Unblocked Strategy
- Yudkowsky, 2017 — Functional Decision Theory: A New Theory of Instrumental Rationality
- Yudkowsky, 2017 — Functional Decision Theory
- Yudkowsky, 2017 — Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
- Yudkowsky, 2022 — AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
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- Zarncke, 2025 — Loop--Hub--Control--Value Model v2
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