New project: an Alignment Journal
2026-03-02 — 2026-03-02
Wherein an open-access Alignment Journal is founded, alternate peer review is trialed, and a one-year pilot is conducted by two managing editors, and submissions are sought through a mailing list.
One massive project over the last few weeks has been founding the Alignment Journal, a new open-access journal for research on AI alignment and related topics.
I am one of the two founding managing editors, along with Jess Riedel, and we have a fantastic team. We’re also really excited about the board members who’ve come on to give us guidance and help us with the work of running the journal.
There are all kinds of things to be done. We have a mandate to experiment with alternate peer review processes, which is a long-running obsession of mine.
Please see the initial announcement post for more details, and subscribe to the blog for updates on the journal, including calls for papers and announcements of accepted papers.
Is this a good idea? We don’t know yet. The goal here is to do a one-year pilot and see if we are making the world better, or not. We’d love for people to participate in the experiment by submitting papers, reviewing papers, or just following along with the journal and giving us feedback. Subscribe to our mailing list here for updates.
I personally am pleased to thank the PIBBSS × ILIAD program for giving me the opportunity to work on this project.