I work on the Events Team at the Centre for Effective Altruism.
Previously, I scaled up the EA Opportunity Board, interned at Global Challenges Project, and founded EA University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I studied Neurobiology and Psychology.
If you think we share an interest (we probably do!), don’t hesitate to reach out :)
Thank you for posting this!
I find these questions and consideration really interesting, and I could see myself experiment with researching questions of this sort for 3 months. As a relatively junior person though who may end up doing this independently, I worry about none of the thinking/writing I’d do on one of these topics actually changing anything. Do you have any advice on making this type of research useful?
Thanks for putting on this event and sharing the takeaways!
Any plans to address these would come from the individuals or orgs working in this space. (This event wasn’t a collective decision-making body, and wasn’t aimed at creating a cross-org plan to address these—it was more about helping individuals refine their own plans).
Re the talent development pipeline for AI safety and governance, some relevant orgs/programs I’m aware of off the top of my head include:
SERI MATS
Fellowships like AI Futures
Blue Dot Impact
… and other programs mentioned on 80K job board and EA Opportunity Board
Thanks for adding these thoughts!
A quick note to say that I’m taking some time off after publishing these posts. I’ll aim to reply to any comments from 13 Nov.
A quick note to say that I’m taking some time off after publishing these posts. I’ll aim to reply to any comments from 13 Nov.
A quick note to say that I’m taking some time off after publishing these posts. I’ll aim to reply to any comments from 13 Nov.
FYI that this is the first of a few Meta Coordination Forum survey summaries. More coming in the next two weeks!
Thank you for making this page
Consider keeping a running list of people you’d like to meet at the next EAG(x)
I used to be pretty overwhelmed when using Swapcard to figure out who I should meet at EAG(x)s. I still get kinda overwhelmed, but I’ve found it helpful to start identifying meetings I’d like to have many weeks before the event.
I do this by creating an easy-to-add-to list in the months leading up to the event. Then when I encounter someone who wrote an interesting post, or if a friend mentions someone scoping a project I’m excited about, I add them to this list. (I use the app todoist to do this quickly with a keyboard shortcut). When Swapcard goes live, I just look up which people on that list are attending.
I still value spontaneous meetings though; at least a few of my meetings are typically prompted by random scrolling through the attendee list.
Thanks for sharing this!
If you’re willing to write up some of your on the ground perspective and it seem valuable, we’d be happy to share it with attendees!
Off the top of my head, I’m thinking things like:
What changes in community members attitudes might ‘leaders’ not be tracking?
From your engagement with ‘leaders’ and community members, what seem to be the biggest misunderstandings?
What cheap actions could leaders take that might have a really positive influence on the community?
I’ll DM you with info on on how to share such a write up, if you’re interested.
Random anecadata on a very specific instance: I worked with Drew to make a Most Important Century writing prize. I enjoyed our conversations and we worked well together — Drew was nice and ambitious. I heard concerns about Nonlinear at this time, but never had anything suspect come up.
Bumping a previous EA forum post: Key EA decision-makers on the future of EA, reflections on the past year, and more (MCF 2023).
This post recaps a survey about EA ‘meta’ topics (eg., talent pipelines, community building mistakes, field-building projects, etc.) that was completed by this year’s Meta Coordination Forum attendees. Meta Coordination Forum is an event for people in senior positions at community- and field-building orgs/programs, like CEA, 80K, and Open Philanthropy’s Global Catastrophic Risk Capacity Building team. (The event has previously gone by the name ‘Leaders Forum.’)
This post received less attention than I thought it would, so I’m bumping it here to make it a bit more well-known that this survey summary exists. All feedback is welcome!