"An Alignment Journal: Coming Soon" by Dan MacKinlay, JessRiedel, Edmund Lau, Daniel Murfet, Scott Aaronson, Jan_Kulveit

tl;dr We’re incubating an academic journal for AI alignment: rapid peer-review of foundational Alignment research that the current publication ecosystem underserves. Key bets: paid attributed review, reviewer-written synthesis abstracts, and targeted automation. Contact us if you’re interested in participating as an author, reviewer, or editor, or if you know someone who might be.

Experimental Infrastructure for Foundational Alignment Research

This is the first in a series of “build-in-the-open” updates regarding the incubation of a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to AI alignment. Later updates will contain much more detail, but we want to put this out soon to draw community participation early. Fill out this form to express your interest in participating as an author, reviewer, editor, developer, manager, or board member, or to recommend someone who might be interested.

The Core Bet

Peer review is a crucial public good: it applies scarce researcher time to sort new ideas for focused attention from the community, but is undersupplied because individual reviewers are poorly incentivized. Peer review in alignment research is particularly fragmented. While some parts of the alignment research community are served by existing venues, such as journals and ML conferences, there are significant gaps. These gaps arise from a [...]

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Outline:

(00:38) Experimental Infrastructure for Foundational Alignment Research

(01:09) The Core Bet

(02:27) Operational Design

(03:56) Scope

(06:08) Governance

(06:35) Advisory board

(09:16) Institutional stewardship

(10:11) Next steps

(10:14) Join the founding team

(11:49) Support us online

(12:14) Contributors to this document

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First published:
March 3rd, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/msnGbm52ZcG3xYcFo/an-alignment-journal-coming-soon

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