“The Alignment Journal: Organization, Personnel, and Scope” by Dan MacKinlay, JessRiedel, Daniel Murfet, Kristi Uustalu
Podcast: LessWrong (30+ Karma)Published On: Wed Sep 02 2026
Description: The Alignment Journal is beginning to invite the authors of select papers to submit their work for review. If you are interested in participating as an action editor or a reviewer, make an account on our website; if you have a manuscript that you think would be a good fit for the Journal at this stage, email contact@alignmentjournal.org to request an invitation to submit. Manuscripts under review will become visible on our homepage, and you will be able to nominate yourself as a reviewer of a specific paper that interests you. We plan to open up submissions to everyone sometime in October. Here we announce the Journal's inaugural senior editorial board, advisory board, staff, organizational structure, and initial scope. We welcome questions and proposed changes to help us refine the scope in the future. Personnel The Journal is run by its senior editorial board, which makes the Journal's scholarly decisions, and two managing editors, who run operations and strategy. The advisory board offers high-level guidance without editorial responsibilities. A software lead and a head of operations support the team. The senior editorial board (8 editors at launch, covering a range of alignment expertise) has authority over all of the [...] ---Outline:(01:02) Personnel(03:43) Advisory board(08:18) Senior editorial board(13:56) Managing editors(15:07) Legal structure(15:36) Funding(15:53) Scope(18:38) Acceptance criteria(20:26) Desk rejects(21:07) Other publication factors(21:13) Preprint requirement(21:44) Archival status and prior publication(23:18) Reproducibility(23:58) Credits and thanks --- First published: September 1st, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9vm2wtAtb34pEkjje/the-alignment-journal-organization-personnel-and-scope --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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