Scholarly Open

AI Safety & Governance

Gold OA
ISSN: requested

A Gold Open Access journal providing a peer-reviewed forum for scientific advances in alignment, monitoring, security, and global policy for frontier models.

4-8 weeks
Average Review Time
~30%
Acceptance Rate
Gold OA
Publishing Model
CC BY 4.0
License

About the Journal

Research on AI alignment, safety evaluations, policy frameworks, and algorithmic governance.

Scholarly Open publishes highly relevant and FAIR-aligned research across our journals. We focus on transparent processes, rapid dissemination, and strong author support.

Rigor & Peer Review
Brings formal peer review to a field dominated by quick-publish preprint servers.
Policy & Technical Synergy
Publishes both technical safety research and policy/governance frameworks.
Fast-Track Review
Ensures rapid publication cycles to keep pace with state-of-the-art AI advancements.

Scope & Coverage

  • AI alignment methodology and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)
  • Scalable oversight, reward hacking, and specification gaming
  • Mechanistic interpretability and model probing
  • Evals and safety benchmarking for frontier models
  • Cybersecurity, jailbreaking, and model robustness
  • Global AI policy, treaties, and governance frameworks
  • Societal impacts, misuse prevention, and structural AI risks

Journal Sections

Alignment TheoryInterpretability & ProbingSafety BenchmarkingRobustness & Adversarial MLAI Policy & RegulationSocietal & Systemic Risks

Editorial Board

Our distinguished editorial board members are leading experts in their fields, overseeing our rigorous peer review and ensuring high publication standards.

Editor-in-Chief

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Position open

Under formation

Associate Editors

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Seeking qualified experts in this field.

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Position Open

Seeking qualified experts in this field.

Editorial Board Members

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Position Open

Seeking qualified experts in this field.

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Position Open

Seeking qualified experts in this field.

Join Our Editorial Team

We are always looking for distinguished scholars to join our editorial board. If you are interested in contributing to the advancement of open access, we would love to hear from you.

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Articles

Explore the latest high-impact peer-reviewed research articles published open-access in this journal.

Sample Articles

These article outlines are illustrative examples for our launch journals.

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Research Article
2026-03-10
Dr. Evelyn Vance, Dr. Charles Zhang

This paper introduces a probing framework to extract factual beliefs and latent reasoning paths from LLMs, addressing hallucination and alignment.

Research Article
2026-05-02
Prof. Julian Alistair, Dr. Hana Tanaka

We present a sandbox environment to evaluate coordination and negotiation safety in multi-agent networks, outlining systemic risks.

Submit to AI Safety & Governance

Please review our author guidelines and prepare your manuscript according to our submission requirements. We welcome original research, reviews, and methodological contributions that support FAIR scholarship.