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 is still a lot of good stuff in there, so I am just putting it out now. Over the past months, I have spent a bit of time reflecting on the condition of the AI safety ecosystem in Europe. This has led me to develop a field-building strategy to improve collaboration on AI safety in Europe. The strategy also lays out a path to increase public awareness of risks from AGI. In this post, I will share my insights and lay out a distributed approach towards European AI safety coordination. I also plan to execute these ideas from Zürich over the course of this year and am optimistic about this project. However, there clearly is uncertainty in how exactly individual parts of this strategy will work out. Part of the strategy presented in this post builds on what Severin T. Seehrich calls "Information Infrastructure" in his post on AGI safety field building projects. Summary I present a strategy towards establishing a strong international network of AI safety field-building organizations in Europe. While AI safety field-building organizations could be EA-associated, I particularly do not refer to just having EA orgs as the AI safety field. The strategy decomposes into three parts: 1. Building local groups to create momentum, credibility, and early networks, 2. Starting national organizations as the key elements of the network, and 3. Growing national organizations into international networks. For national organizations (2.) I present field studies of different paths. These include: 1. Starting big after acquiring government funding, 2. Starting small with the minimal viable product (MVP) and expanding from there, and 3. Growing local groups into national organizations.