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Atlas

A quiz companion and word-by-word audio read-along for the AI Safety Atlas textbook.
StatusConcept
Year2026
StackAstro, TypeScript, Python, AssemblyAI

Overview

The AI Safety Atlas is an open textbook on AI safety from the French Center for AI Safety (CeSIA) and partners. I’ve been working on two additions to it:

  • A quiz companion: section quizzes and chapter reviews to check your understanding. It’s an unofficial proof of concept for CeSIA and covers chapter 1 so far.
  • An audio read-along: the chapters’ audio is aligned to the text word by word, so the text highlights as it’s read and you can click any word to jump there.

[How you got involved, and why these two features]

Where it stands

The read-along works and is tested in the browser for chapter 1, on a branch of my fork of the Atlas site. The audio pipeline has processed all 8 chapters and 71 sections, and it notices when the source audio changes so it doesn’t redo work. The quiz’s questions are placeholders for now.

Notes

[What’s next: getting the read-along merged upstream, writing real quiz questions]