“We Started Lens Academy: Scalable Education on Superintelligence Risk” by Luc Brinkman, meriton, pleiotroth, Chris-Lons

The number of people who deeply understand superintelligence risk is far too small. There's a growing pipeline of people entering AI Safety, but most of the available onboarding covers the field broadly, touching on many topics without going deep on the parts we think matter most. People come out having been exposed to AI Safety ideas, but often can't explain why alignment is genuinely hard, or think strategically about what to work on. We think the gap between "I've heard of AI Safety" and "I understand why this might end everything, and can articulate it" is one of the most important gaps to close.

We started Lens Academy to close that gap. Lens Academy is a free, nonprofit AI Safety education platform focused specifically on misaligned superintelligence: why it's the central risk, why alignment is hard, and how to think about what to work on.

The teaching combines:

• Reading articles and watching videos
• Exercises and tests (e.g. you get a question and a free text box to answer)
• 1-on-1 AI tutoring that helps you work through concepts and arguments throughout the week
• Weekly group discussions where ideas land, get challenged, and become real.

Help Lens help [...]

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Outline:

(01:52) Help Lens help the AI Safety community by becoming a navigator

(02:13) Designed to reach millions

(02:43) How we teach

(04:26) What weve built

(05:54) Where we are

(06:21) How you can help

(07:06) Links

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First published:
March 15th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Lg3tZCXC8NMGbFrzm/we-started-lens-academy-scalable-education-on

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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