I’m a generalist and open sourcerer that does a bit of everything, but perhaps nothing particularly well. I’m currently the AI Safety Group Support Lead at CEA.
I was previously a Software Engineer in the Worldview Investigations Team at Rethink Priorities.
A few years ago, I started an EA university group in Chile, got funding and support through UGAP, then got advising through 80k and continued mentoring through OSP. This year, I got hired at CEA’s Groups team.
It’s difficult to trace counterfactual impact, but I suspect this wouldn’t have been possible if UGAP hadn’t helped me get a group started, or if CEA wasn’t able to recognize good talent outside top universities.
I’m biased now, but I think people miss how most of our team’s efforts go to scalable support, which doesn’t necessarily target top universities (and includes universities like mine). Selecting top universities is a good heuristic for getting high-quality group members, but you also get diminishing returns fast because you’re bottlenecked by having great organizers at these universities who are in need of support. This, alongside the fact that there is such a thing as great groups outside of top universities, is why we still spend a lot of time, resources, and money on other universities worldwide.