arXiv · Semantic Scholar · 2005–2026

The vocabulary of AI safety, counted

How to read this. arXiv has no keyword field, so “keyword” here means the buzzword appears in a paper’s title or abstract. Each term was retrieved from Semantic Scholar (Computer Science, 2005+), then verified by exact phrase match to strip out stemming noise (e.g. “scheme”≠“scheming”). Bar sizes count distinct arXiv papers; generic words like bias still catch some off-topic uses.

Buzzword cloud

Size = papers; colour = grouping. Switch either below — size by any of 7 metrics (mentions, citations, impact, recency, momentum, debut/peak year); colour by any lens. (Size ≈ √metric.)

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Most-used buzzwords

by paper count

Top 26 terms by the chosen weight (papers, citations, citations/paper, recency or momentum); bar colour by any grouping lens.

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