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  "kind": "route",
  "format": "kosplora-route/0.2",
  "question": "Where should someone new to AI safety start?",
  "move": [
    "understand",
    "decide"
  ],
  "audience": "No background needed. The same road is on legibleai.org.",
  "time": {
    "solo": "5h15m",
    "together": "1h30m"
  },
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Bentley Moon",
      "date": "2026-10-20"
    }
  ],
  "would_change": "If the case for alarm and the case against it stopped disagreeing about a checkable fact, station 4 would become a reading of that evidence instead of a second essay.",
  "standard": null,
  "stations": [
    {
      "type": "orient",
      "time": "1h",
      "task": "Take the illustrated tour of where AI came from, the problems and the proposed solutions. Write down the one problem you would most like explained.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "See the whole field in pictures. AI Safety for Fleshy Humans, by Nicky Case: an illustrated tour in three parts, on where AI came from and might go, the problems, and the proposed solutions.",
          "author": "Nicky Case",
          "date": "",
          "url": "https://aisafety.dance/",
          "origin": "published"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "source",
      "time": "30m",
      "task": "Ask the question you wrote down, read the answer, and open at least one of the sources it points to.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Ask the questions you have. AISafety.info answers common questions about AI risk in plain language, and Stampy, its chatbot, points to its sources.",
          "author": "AISafety.info",
          "date": "",
          "url": "https://aisafety.info/",
          "origin": "published"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "source",
      "time": "45m",
      "task": "Read the strongest case for alarm, in the words of the people who make it. Note its main step.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Read the strongest case for alarm. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s “The Problem” sets out why its researchers expect superhuman AI built with today’s methods to end in human extinction. The book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, makes the same case at full length.",
          "author": "Machine Intelligence Research Institute",
          "date": "",
          "url": "https://intelligence.org/the-problem/",
          "origin": "published"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "counterpoint",
      "time": "1h",
      "task": "Read a strong case against it and write down where the two disagree: about facts, about timing, or about what follows.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Read a strong case against it. AI as Normal Technology, by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor (Knight First Amendment Institute, 15 April 2025), argues that AI will be transformative the way electricity and the internet were, and should not be treated as a separate, potentially superintelligent species.",
          "author": "Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, Knight First Amendment Institute",
          "date": "2025-04-15",
          "url": "https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology",
          "origin": "published"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "person",
      "time": "1h30m",
      "task": "Join a free course with a facilitator and a group, and bring your note on where the two cases disagree to the first session.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Take a free course with other people. Lens Academy runs free AI safety courses, taken in small groups, from beginner to advanced, part-time or intensive. Its Structured Introduction is marked as the place to start.",
          "author": "Lens Academy",
          "date": "",
          "url": "https://www.lensacademy.org/courses",
          "origin": "published"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "make",
      "time": "30m",
      "task": "Write one page: what you now think, the strongest point against it, and one thing you will do next, from the career guide, the directory or neither.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Decide what to do about it. 80,000 Hours’ profile of AI risk asks whether working on it could be the most useful thing you do with your career. AISafety.com, the field’s own directory, lists events, communities, courses and the organisations doing the work.",
          "author": "80,000 Hours",
          "date": "",
          "url": "https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/artificial-intelligence/",
          "origin": "published"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "artifact": {
    "keeps": "A one-page note: what you now think about AI risk, the strongest point against it, and one thing you will do next."
  },
  "exit": [
    "keep",
    "share",
    "fork",
    "close"
  ],
  "revisions": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-20",
      "change": "First version, from the legibleai.org road.",
      "by": "Bentley Moon"
    }
  ]
}