Published on February 17, 2025 2:16 PM GMT
Crossposted on Substack and the EA forum.
Gergő from ENAIS here with this month’s updates! Please consider forwarding this email to other community builders who you think could benefit from reading, or encourage them to sign up!
0. Announcement: The newsletter has moved to Substack!
I have also decided to rename it to the Fieldbuilders Newsletter, as this title more succinctly describes its scope. In the previous subscriber form, I asked if you would like to get a reminder to suggest content at the beginning of each month. I will move this option to our Slack. If you expect you would like to offer or suggest content to the newsletter, please join the ENAIS Slack and look for the #fieldbuilders-newsletter channel.
1. Monthly European AIS Field Builders Coordination Call
Together with AI Safety Collab, we are organising a monthly coordination call for European AIS field builders. You are warmly invited to the next call!
Date: February 25th, 17:45-18:10 CEST
Location:
Zoom (Meeting ID: 634 9893 7832 Password: 580347)
Frequency: Monthly on the fourth Tuesday
Calendar: Subscribe here
Agenda: View here (work in progress)
2. Lots of upcoming conferences and retreats
- EAGxCDMX 2025, Museo de las Ciencias, Mexico City, 14-16 March. Deadline to apply: 24th FebruaryEA Germany Community Building Retreat (open to AIS fieldbuilders), DJH Youth Hostel, 21-23 March. Deadline to apply: 28 FebruaryEAGxNordics, Oslo, Norway, 25-27 April. Deadline to apply: 8th AprilEA North one-day summit, Sheffield, UK, 26th April.EAGxPrague, Czech Republic, 9-11 May. Deadline to apply: 18th AprilEA Global: London, June 6-8. Deadline to apply: 18th MayAI for Good Global Summit, Geneva, Switzerland, 08-11 July (not sure about the deadline)Cooperative AI Summer School, Marlow, near London, UK, 9-13 July. Deadline to apply: 7th MarchThe Compassionate Future Summit, Berlin, 21-25 AugustEAGxBerlin, 3-5 October. Applications open soon, get notified.
To repeat my usual line on EA conferences:
People who are interested in AI Safety, but not EA, often get the impression that this conference is not for them.
To make it clear, you don’t have to be interested in EA to attend, and you should make this clear to the members of your community as well. Much of the content will be focusing on AI Safety, and many people (including myself) are only attending to networking with others in AIS. I think this is worth clarifying to your group members as well, as I have seen several cases of people not being aware of this.
3. Opportunities for you and your group members
- Applications are open for the Tarbell Fellowship (AI Journalism)! Deadline: 28th FebruaryBluedot is running an intensive course every week between 17 February and 24 March. Apply here.Junior Research Fellowship by ILINA Program (Africa). Deadline to apply: 15th MarchCambridge AIS Hub is hiring for a Leadership Role. Deadline: 21st FebruaryLISA CEO role. Deadline: 24th FebruaryFollow AI Safety Events & Training for more regular (weekly) updates!Follow the EA Opportunity board for updates on jobs!
4. Start a fieldbuilding organisation:
ENAIS (that’s us!) is looking for EOIs from people thinking about starting fieldbuilding organisations at the city or national levels. See this forum post for details.
I have been thinking about what non-location-specific x/s-risk fieldbuilding organisations would be useful to have in the space. If you are interested to read more and collaborate, read my new blog post here.
5. The Gameboard has Been Flipped
The forum post above has generated a lot of discussion recently, so I recommend checking it out. If you buy the author’s argument, the implications are relevant for fieldbuilding and communications projects as well.
Other useful and new readings:
- Meta Coordination Forum (2024) / Talent Need SurveyMATS Spring 2024 Extension RetrospectivePodcasts about AI safetyBooks about AI safetyIntroductions to AI safety
6. AI Safety Berlin has been launched!
I’m sharing their message below:
AI Safety Berlin welcomes feedback on our website & events, supporters and co-organizers. We're currently not funded, working on this entirely in a personal capacity. We're open to funding, but we're not actively looking (yet). Happy to share via email what we could do with more funding or more volunteer capacity. Contact: aisafetyberlin@gmail.com
Links we always share:
- Sign up to the ENAIS Directory and add your group to our map. Consider sharing this opportunity with your group members, here is an email template that you can use.To get an overview of AI Safety organizations and projects, go to AISafety.com’s landscape map. It’s quite beautiful! They also have an extensive list of resources on AI Safety, including funding and job opportunities, projects to join and more.Check out the new AI Safety Groups Resource Center!Email me at gergo[at] enais.co if you need career advice or tips on running AI Safety groups!
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