What's going on in video in AI Safety these days? (A list)

By ChanaMessinger @ 2025-09-15T20:30 (+55)

My write-up as of September 2025 - feel free to ask me for a more updated Source of Truth if you're interested in this space - and please let me know what I’m missing!

Key Players Making Video:

Organization

• Palisade Research:
  • Does research on AI for policymakers and communicators.
  • Has started its own video program - check out their videos! Run by Petr Lebedev, an ex-producer/scriptwriter for Veritasium
• Future of Life Institute (FLI): Has an accelerator program to fund creators making AI-related videos.
• AI Digest: Produces explainers on AI and as far as I know might be interested in someone running a video program for them
• Control AI is getting great clips from podcasts and putting them up on Twitter. I've suggested that they should create a spreadsheet of these so everyone can use them in their videos.
• "Fancier Crowd" that I’m going to be vague about: People with experience in Netflix pitches and successful political social media campaigns are becoming more involved in communicating AI safety through video, often independent of EA organizations
• Conor Axiotes: making an AI documentary
• Michael Trazzi: Made the SB 1047 Documentary and makes TikToks
• 80,000 Hours Video Program (AI in Context):
  • Two full-time people (Chana Messinger, Aric Floyd) and contractors.
  • Our main effort is the YouTube channel "AI in Context."
  • Eventually we might look to expand - more videos, more channels, maybe pitching to streaming services
  • Scriptwriting is our current biggest bottleneck
  • We contract for production and film people (lights, camera work, sound)
• 80,000 Hours podcast is released as videos

Organizations that might be interested in doing more video

• Giving What We Can
• Seismic Foundation: aims to raise public awareness and engagement with AI safety through broad-reach, relatable content for targeted groups of the general public, such as series and documentaries. They're also starting up a content engine - they're looking for creator partnerships, amplifying content or ideas from other AI Safety organizations and they're on the hunt for a host / talent for some of their projects.

Youtubers / Tiktokkers

Not a complete list of people in this space

• Rob Miles
• Siliconversations: A channel that has received funding from the Future of Life Institute (FLI), makes AI Safety videos
• John Leaver: Runs Digital Engine, Pindex, and Inside AI; has been very helpful and is looking to start a new channel, often seeking hosts.
• Drew Spartz runs a very successful YouTube channel on AI Safety, had a multi-million view video on AI 2027
• Rational Animations
• Mithuna Yoganathan, a physics YouTuber, recently made a video on AI 2027
• Computerphile posted a lot of videos about AI Safety
• Spencer Greenberg is ramping up making YouTube and shortform videos and has a team of people working with him
• Zac of the Neural guide pivoted recently to talking about AI Safety
• There are also points of connection to CGP Grey, Veritasium and Kurzgesagt
• Kris Gasteratos is making excellent videos about cultivated meat; I think there’s a lot he’s learned that I’d like to learn from
• (Copied from Matrice's excellent comment below): There's a decent amount of French-speaking ~AI safety content on YouTube:
  • @Shaïman Thürler's channel Le Futurologue
  • @Gaetan_Selle 🔷 's channel The Flares
  • @len.hoang.lnh's channel Science4All and Thibaut Giraud's channel Monsieur Phi, the two channels cited by 9 of the 17 people citing a YouTube channel as where they first heard of EA in the 2020 EA Survey
  • The CeSIA advised for the production of this video, which reached nearly five million views by the time I am writing this (i.e. plausibly >10% of the French adult population)
  • The CeSIA also gave an interview to popular scientific-skeptic channel La Tronche en Biais, which has expressed interest in posting more on the topic of AI safety more recently
  • David Louapre, who runs Science Étonnante, one of the most popular French-language science channels, has just this week announced pivoting to working as an AI safety researcher at Hugging Face, so it's possible more will come from that direction too

Filmmakers

• Kate Hammond, of https://www.softcutfilms.com/ is making an AI Safety Documentary
• Elizabeth Cox, of Should We Studios, producing Ada, about pressing problems
• Other points of connection to Hollywood

Retreats / coordination / upskilling

• Mox populi
• I've heard about two other people who are considering putting on coordination retreats for people interested in this space. 

Lots of people are interested in working on this / helping out:

e.g.

• Another ex-big channel producer/scriptwriter might be interested in getting involved
  • We know several people from the ex-Veritasium crowd
• Some of the people who worked on Michael Trazzi’s documentary
• People in the “EA Youtuber” WhatsApp group chat
• I know of two videographers interested in x-risk looking for work
• Someone who’s done videography on both sides of the camera and has done scriptwriting before and is poking around the space
• Someone making tools for video creators
• And others!
• I also have a long list of folks from the expression of interest forms I have out

Links where you can find more information

• Where can I find videos about AI safety? (tries to be quite thorough and is a great resource, but didn't satisfy my personal use case for the kind of video content that is becoming more common now, with more urgency and higher production values)
• How cost-effective are AI safety YouTubers? — EA Forum

Reach out if you'd like to be involved, have experience in video, or know people who do!