AI Safety Communications Centre

The AI Safety Communications Centre (AISCC) is a project of Effective Ventures Foundation (UK) focused on bridging the gap between the AI safety research community and media coverage. Its core service is a directory of vetted AI safety experts — including researchers such as Dan Hendrycks, Buck Shlegeris, and Katja Grace — who are available to speak with journalists covering AI risks, regulation, and safety. AISCC publishes resources for journalists including overviews of AI risk, summaries of AI regulation proposals, and analyses of frontier AI model governance. It has also commissioned public opinion research: a YouGov poll conducted in October 2023 found that 83% of British adults believe governments should require AI companies to prove their systems are safe before releasing them, and that 46% of Brits want their government to do more to address AI risks. The project was co-founded by Shakeel Hashim, who previously served as Head of Communications at the Centre for Effective Altruism, and Alex Lintz, an AI governance advisor. Open Philanthropy recommended a $288,000 grant to Effective Ventures Foundation for the project in January 2024. The organization operates as a small project under Effective Ventures Foundation's fiscal sponsorship structure. As of early 2026, the AISCC website has been made private, and the co-founders appear to have moved to other roles. Shakeel Hashim is now Editor at Transformer and on the leadership team of the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.