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TL;DR: Following the Zurich AI Safety Day in 2025, the Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 are a two-day AI Safety event (7-8 November, ETH Zurich); RSVP here Swiss AI Safety Days 2026 is the next chapter of the Zurich AI Safety Day. Last year, our inaugural 2025 event was named...
Summary Zurich AI Safety (ZAIS) is hiring a Director, with the goal of professionalizing AI Safety capacity building in Zurich and Switzerland. The Director will lead individualized career advising for promising talent, expand outreach to mid- and senior-level professionals, manage ZAIS's growing volunteer team, and explore AI Safety opportunities in...
TL;DR: The Zurich AI Safety Day - a one-day conference in Zurich of more than 200 participants - was a new event format to bring together the AI safety field across Europe and tap into the local talent pool. The feedback received was very positive, and the event could serve...
TL;DR: AI Safety as a cause-area has grown to a substantial size within Effective Altruism. To avoid neglect of other cause-areas and to help the field grow more efficiently, I advocate running cause-area specific conferences. They could shape a shared identity for the field, lower access barriers for non-EA talent,...
TL;DR: Zurich AI Safety (ZAIS) is looking for a Director or Co-Directors. As of now, ZAIS is purely volunteer-run and is applying for funding for this position in collaboration with EA Switzerland. Therefore, this is an expression of interest (EOI) rather than a secured hiring, but promising candidates will be...
TL;DR: A Distributed Approach to European AI Safety Coordination Disclaimer: I wrote this post a couple of months ago and didn’t get to publish it then. Relative time specifications have to be seen in this context. Although some of my opinions have slightly changed since writing this, I think there...