Our AI debates are 100 debates in a trenchcoat...
...but they all boil down to one question:
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or THE STATUS QUO?
(for better and/or worse)
(for better and/or worse)
I don't know the answer to that question,
but I know the answer will affect all of us.
That's why I've made this accessible whirlwind tour to AI Safety,
so that
all of us
all of us
can understand
all of this
all of this
So, congrats to you for
reading this series!
( four hours worth of text!!! )
reading this series!
( four hours worth of text!!! )
You've learnt about AI's past, present, and possible futures...
Broken down the problems, built up possible solutions...
...and put up a lot of thinly-veiled furry comics.
I think we're all aware that
the current status quo is...
not great...
and the spectre of AI, getting more & more advanced, is
frightening... in both good and bad ways.
But:
We've faced & solved great challenges before.
So, let's make sure that AI is aligned with us, and more importantly,
that we're
aligned with us.
aligned with us.
Don't just fight for survival.
Fight for what makes life
worth surviving for.
worth surviving for.
Stay humane, fellow humans.
AI SAFETY
FOR
FLESHY
HUMANS
WRITTEN & DRAWN
BY NICKY CASE
(on-and-off, over the course of 3 years...)
BY NICKY CASE
(on-and-off, over the course of 3 years...)
IN COLLABORATION
WITH HACK CLUB
& extra funding from the long term future foundation
WITH HACK CLUB
& extra funding from the long term future foundation
SPECIAL THANKS TO THESE FOLKS FOR THEIR FEEDBACK
& ENCOURAGING ME TO FINISH THIS DANG THING:
Alex Kreitzberg ·
Audrey Tang ·
B Cavello ·
Dewi Erwan ·
Egg Syntax ·
Gisele Chou ·
Lexi Mattick ·
Max Wofford ·
Mithuna Yoganathan ·
Paul Dancstep ·
Tim Urban ·
Tobias Rose-Stockwell ·
Zach Latta
AND THANK
YOU
FOR READING!
Welp, that's the end of this ridiculously long series!
I'll still do more AI Safety/Governance explainers (& original research!)
in the near future. To keep up on that, let's skip the social media feeds —
subscribe to my YouTube or my monthly newsletter! ⤵
You could also help me pay food & rent in this economy, no pressure:
If you'd like to learn more about AI Safety & Governance, I recommend checking out the YouTube channels Rational Animations & Rob Miles. For deeper dives, check out Stuart Russell's book Human Compatible, or sign up for BlueDot's courses. To learn about the math behind modern neural networks, watch 3Blue1Brown's YouTube series.
Or, you know, check out the sources from
the 200+ footnotes I put in this series.
If you're a teen hacker & would like to learn and create with other teen hackers, check out 🦕 Hack Club! They're doing a 🕵️ murder mystery hackathon in Vienna in Jan 2026, and an 🔥 international game jam in Feb 2026. If you'd like to sign up for their newsletter, you can get free AI Safety for Fleshy Humans stickers: ⤵
To learn more about / get funding for / donate to "stuff that reduces the chance some horrible civilization-level catastrophe happens this century", check out the 🔮 Long-Term Future Fund.
Stay humane, cats & kittens!
~ Nicky Case
p.s: you stuck all the way to the end? wow! thank you <3
here, have a wallpaper, and another wallpaper 💖
p.p.s: it took me 6 hours to draw that "crossroads" image, in Procreate. here's proof it was fully human-drawn, no generative AI used. not gonna lie, about 3 hours in, i was reaaaaally tempted to let an AI autocomplete it for me...
subscribe to my YouTube or my monthly newsletter! ⤵
You could also help me pay food & rent in this economy, no pressure:
If you'd like to learn more about AI Safety & Governance, I recommend checking out the YouTube channels Rational Animations & Rob Miles. For deeper dives, check out Stuart Russell's book Human Compatible, or sign up for BlueDot's courses. To learn about the math behind modern neural networks, watch 3Blue1Brown's YouTube series.
Or, you know, check out the sources from
the 200+ footnotes I put in this series.
If you're a teen hacker & would like to learn and create with other teen hackers, check out 🦕 Hack Club! They're doing a 🕵️ murder mystery hackathon in Vienna in Jan 2026, and an 🔥 international game jam in Feb 2026. If you'd like to sign up for their newsletter, you can get free AI Safety for Fleshy Humans stickers: ⤵
To learn more about / get funding for / donate to "stuff that reduces the chance some horrible civilization-level catastrophe happens this century", check out the 🔮 Long-Term Future Fund.
Stay humane, cats & kittens!
~ Nicky Case
p.s: you stuck all the way to the end? wow! thank you <3
here, have a wallpaper, and another wallpaper 💖
p.p.s: it took me 6 hours to draw that "crossroads" image, in Procreate. here's proof it was fully human-drawn, no generative AI used. not gonna lie, about 3 hours in, i was reaaaaally tempted to let an AI autocomplete it for me...