Are there any AI safety research forums that focus on interpretability and misalignment research?

Yes — there are several AI safety research forums and community spaces that regularly discuss interpretability and misalignment research. A few good options:

Broad AI safety / alignment forums

• LessWrong
  Probably the largest general forum for AI alignment, interpretability, and misalignment discussion. Many technical posts and research ideas are shared there.

• Alignment Forum
  A more research-focused sister site to LessWrong, intended for higher-signal technical alignment discussion. Good for interpretability, mechanistic interpretability, agent foundations, and misalignment analysis.

Research community spaces

• AI Alignment Forum groups / lab communities
  Many alignment research groups use private Slack/Discord/Matrix channels or discussion boards. Access is often by invitation, but they’re active places for interpretability and misalignment work.

• MIRI / ARC / Anthropic / Conjecture-related community spaces
  These organizations and their associated researchers often publish or discuss interpretability and misalignment topics, though the discussion spaces themselves may be less public.

Interpretability-focused communities

• Mechanistic interpretability communities on Discord/Slack
  There are community-run spaces centered on circuits, feature visualization, sparse autoencoders, and model internals. These are often the most directly relevant if you’re interested in interpretability research.

• Hacker News / Twitter / X research threads
  Not formal forums, but interpretability and misalignment research is frequently discussed by researchers there.

Academic / semi-academic venues

• Openreview / workshop discussions
  Many alignment- and interpretability-related workshops at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc., have public discussion pages or community interaction around submissions.

• Reddit communities
  Subreddits like r/ControlProblem, r/MachineLearning, and occasionally r/AIAlignment can have relevant discussion, though quality varies.

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a short list of the highest-signal forums,
2. active Discord/Slack communities for interpretability, or
3. places that are especially good for misalignment / deceptive alignment research.