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!
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)
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.
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.
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:
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
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