About the series

AI for Altruism publishes two numbered series. Each says on its first page what kind of claim it makes and what review it has had, so a reader can weigh it accordingly.

Two series

Technical Reports (A4A-TR) contribute something a reader can check or test: a measurement, a system, or a definition that makes testable predictions. A report that proposes a framework without empirical results is labeled Concept paper and names the study that will test it.

Position Papers (A4A-PP) argue for what others should do or adopt. Their claims are judged by argument, not by a later test, and every factual claim in them is cited and checked against its source.

Numbers run by series and year, for example A4A-TR-2026-001. A number is never reused.

Review

Reports in these series are not peer reviewed in the journal sense. Before release, each report is read by at least one reviewer other than its authors, chosen for the topic. A reviewer may remain anonymous, and the record then reads Reviewer: Anonymous. Where no reviewer outside the authors has read a report, its status line says so. A report that later appears in a journal or conference carries a link to the published version.

Some reports were first released on arXiv and numbered in this series afterward.

Versions and corrections

A report is corrected by releasing a new version, never by changing an old one. Every version stays available, the report's page lists what changed and when, and each PDF's SHA-256 checksum is published so a copy can be checked against the original.

Use of AI tools

Every report states which AI tools were used and for what, in its own declaration. The authors are responsible for all of a report's content.

License and identifiers

Reports are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license unless the page says otherwise. Reports also posted to arXiv use the arXiv record as their DOI. Others may receive a DOI from a public repository, shown on the report's page.

Contact

Corrections and comments are welcome at team@ai4altruism.org.