Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer projects Initiatives seeking your volunteer help . These projects are focused on supporting and improving the AI safety field. Seeking maintainer Alignment Research Dataset Regularly scrapes all major sources of alignment data for use by the Stampy chatbot and other projects. Currently needs someone to maintain it. Olivier Coutu [email protected] Active Seeking contributions AI Risk and Alignment Wiki An open-access scholarly reference on risks from AI and the technical and governance research aimed at addressing them. Website: alignment.miraheze.org/wiki Jaeson Booker [email protected] Active Status 34 projects Seguridad de la IA (iaS) Spanish-language AI safety hub: seminars, translated resources (e.g. AI Safety Atlas), and field-building across the Spanish-speaking world. Seeking frontend/content help (Spanish helpful) and fullstack/backend dev. Site: aisafety.es Osmani Redondo [email protected] Active Multi-lingual key AI safety documents People who control democratic outcomes in Germany, France, Japan, and Korea tend to read in their own language. Thinking of a WhatsApp-shareable translated version of AI 2027 or The Compendium, for example. Leonard Bereska [email protected] Seeking owner Threat Model -> Direction Bet Mapper Tool for newcomers that would map threat model/timelines/ideas or authors that one likes to specific agendas with existing progress, funding, people, critique, gaps, potential projects, skills needed. Complementary to shallowreview.ai Tair Ospanov [email protected] Seeking owner AI Safety Feed Curated stream for AI safety content, gathering posts and research from key sources. AI helps summarize, tag, and rate the novelty of content. Site: aisafetyfeed.com Matt Brooks [email protected] Active AI Safety Quest Volunteer organization helping new people navigate the AI safety ecosystem, connect with like-minded people, and find projects that are a good fit for their skills. Site: aisafety.quest/#volunteer AI Safety Quest [email protected] Active AI Safety Project An open source website aimed at highlighting the key risks and challenges associated with AI development, and to share potential solutions. Contributions and suggestions welcome. Site: dunchead.github.io/ai-safety Duncan Rickelton [email protected] Active Comprehensive AI Risk Understanding Assessment Create a comprehensive test of a person's understanding of AI risks. Include brief (30 second), moderate (3–10 minute), and thorough (11–30 minute) versions. See Clearer Thinking Artificial Intelligence Quiz and Clearer Thinking Long-Term Future Quiz. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner Network of High Impact Spaces Create multiple off-grid coliving and coworking spaces in reasonably secure, low-cost places around the world that are relatively resilient to global catastrophes. Somewhat similar spaces include Emerge and Project Lakefront. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner AISafety.com Website (this one!) serving as a hub for resources for the AI safety community. Seeking assistance with user research and testing, promotion, SEO, and non-CSS development. Site: aisafety.com Bryce Robertson [email protected] Active AISafety.info Intended to be a single point of access for learning about AI safety, created by Rob Miles's volunteer team. Currently seeking volunteers to provide suggestions to articles via the Google Doc link on each article. Site: aisafety.info Algon [email protected] Active Directory of AI safety research teams A directory to map current AI safety research, identify potential gaps in the landscape, and create opportunities for AI safety researchers to share work, find collaborators, and inspire others to get involved in mitigating existential AI risk. Site: aisafety.anthroforge.io Olamide Florence Adeoye [email protected] Active “Most Likely Ways to Die” Campaign Create a research-based website that ranks the most likely ways an average person living today will die. Rogue AI and AI-developed bioweapons would likely be at the top, with more well-known causes lower. Coordinate with How We Die. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner Existential Safety Quantified Expertise Ranking Create a “Lifetime Contribution” metric defining the number of hours someone has invested in existential/catastrophic risk reduction. This would serve as a rough objective proxy for the person’s foresight, agency, and altruism. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner Enhancing the AI safety ecosystem via debates Our epistemics and mutual understanding could be improved with regular debates/adversarial collaborations between alignment researchers who disagree on particular topics. We need a platform to facilitate this. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Active Existential Risk Awareness Realization Guide Research the stages of understanding of existential risk awareness, then publish broadly. Coordinate with CFAR and Upgradable for rationality development insights. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner Stampede Discord Bot Stampede is an Elixir chatbot framework that can serve multiple servers and services simultaneously. It's now time to start making the plugins which Rob Miles Discord members will be using daily, and the project is in need of a new dev to take over. Link: discord.gg/upZ6x92WmE Matt Wilson [email protected] Active Existential Risk from AI Calculator Develop existing quantitative models of existential risks in a professional, public-facing website so they are easy enough for the general public and policymakers to use, then publish broadly. Coordinate with Existential Risks from AI. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner PhD pairing platform Many people are seeking PhD opportunities or supervisors to guide their work, and there are presumably also supervisors seeking PhD students. Creating a dedicated platform for PhD pairing could facilitate them finding each other and have a cascading impact. Madhusudhan Pathak [email protected] Seeking owner Politicians on AI Safety (PAIS) A nonpartisan website tracking political candidates’ AI policy stances across three categories: mundane, geopolitical, and existential risks. Seeking help with both web development and research. Liam Robins [email protected] Paused AI-Plans Ranked and scored contributable compendium of alignment plans and their problems. Seeking volunteers to submit alignment plans and participate in critique-athons, as well as a designer to improve the site. Site: ai-plans.com Kabir Kumar [email protected] Active Givewiki Crowdsourced charity evaluator, helping people find or promote the best AI safety projects (as well as projects in other cause areas). Seeking volunteers to help market and grow the platform. Site: givewiki.org Givewiki [email protected] Active Alignment transcription service Some approaches to solving alignment involve teaching ML systems about alignment and getting assistance from them. It may be useful to capture conversations between researchers and use them to expand our dataset of alignment content to train models on. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Paused AlignmentSearch Conversational agent informed by the Alignment Research Dataset. This project served as a foundation for the Stampy chatbot, which is built and maintained by Rob Miles's volunteer team. Site: aisafety.info/chat AI Alignment McGill [email protected] Active Global AI Moratorium A project to raise awareness of existential risk from AI and push governments to address it by implementing a global moratorium on large AI training runs until alignment is solved. Site: moratorium.ai Mikhail Samin [email protected] Active AI safety quotes Create a list of quotes by notable people supporting AI safety, easily searchable and for use in various situations. This has been suggested by multiple AI safety communications people. See pauseai.info/quotes for something similar. Agustín Covarrubias [email protected] Seeking owner An international network for AI safety Found an organization similar to ENAIS that tracks and connects people and organizations doing valuable work in AI safety. Could share a database with ENAIS but use more international branding. Might connect many national organizations. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner A guide to living frugally, optimized for the AI safety field The more frugally people live, the more independent they are from requiring a day job. In addition, the same amount of grantmaker money could support a larger number of individuals, enabling us to do more research per dollar. Beatricz Emmanuel [email protected] Active Facilitate people transitioning from capabilities research to safety research Increasing the ratio of AI safety to AI capabilities researchers seems like a core way to reduce existential risk from AI. Given their experience, helping capabilities researchers switch to AI safety could be especially effective. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner EA Gather An always-active virtual coworking environment and social space – especially valuable for networking and collaboration. Seeking volunteers to be present on the platform and introduce new people to the space as they arrive. Sasha Cooper [email protected] Active AI safety PhD cohorts Collect and connect everyone interested in AI safety who is applying for a PhD each year. Put them in a Slack/Discord together and facilitate the effort to look into different programs and share information with each other. Bryce Robertson [email protected] Seeking owner TRecursive Interactive tree-like maps of AI safety research designed to make the research landscape more navigable. Looking for someone to continue the idea independently of the founder, who is now bandwidth-constrained. Site: trecursive.com Myles Heller [email protected] Paused Reading What We Can Collects public materials (mostly books and longform meta papers) on various topics related to AI safety and makes it easy for individuals to read through them as part of a challenge. Seeking volunteers to improve the project. Site: readingwhatwecan.com Esben Kran [email protected] Active Contribute to this page Add a project Suggest a correction View data in Airtable Want to volunteer on AI safety work? I can match you to an active project. This conversation may be reviewed by the AISafety.com team and trusted partners to improve the chatbot. I can code – show me projects Non-technical ways to volunteer Projects needing the least time

This role contributes to AI safety projects that aim to ensure artificial intelligence systems are developed and deployed safely and beneficially for humanity.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Interest in AI safety projects
• Willingness to volunteer time and expertise

Volunteer position - no compensation mentioned.

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