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Coach & AI Safety Field Builder, currently with aisafety.berlin
Formerly director of EA Germany, EA Berlin and EAGxBerlin 2022

Happy to connect with people with shared interests. Message me with ideas, proposals, feedback, connections or just random thoughts!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelallgaier/

How others can help me

Collaborators and funding to accelerate AI safety and AI governance careers, feedback for my work

How I can help others

Contacts in European AI safety & AI governance ecosystem, feedback on your strategy, projects, career plans, possibly collaborations

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To give one example, I don't see anything in the US comparable to how the Chinese government treats Uyghurs. 

2025 updates on coworking spaces: 

Constellation has a website, and a visiting fellows program. Short term visitors can email them: https://www.constellation.org/

FAR Labs, another AI safety coworking space in Berkeley, is open for short-term visiters and long-term memberships, see the application form on their website. 

Lighthaven hosts programs such as MATS and various events. 

Lightcone closed afaik? 

What's the status of this? I sometimes run into Brussel-based people interested in AI safety (technical, governance, ...), is there any website or contact person for AI Safety Brussels that I could refer people to? If not, does EA Brussels have any members working in AI safety / governance? 

This is the best summary of recent developments I've seen so far, thanks a lot for writing this up! 

I've shared it with people in my AI Safety / AI Gov network, and we might discuss it in our AI Gov meetup tonight. 

I did not say that this was due to the EU AI Act, agree that GDPR seems more likely. I mentioned it as an example of EU regulation leading to an AI Lab delaying their EU launch / deprioritizing the EU. 

Anthropic released Claude everywhere but the EU first, and their EU release happened only months later, so to some extend labs are already deprioritizing the EU market. I guess this trend would continue? Not sure. 

When will you be able to share first results? Any timeline? 

These results seem more valuable the sooner you can share them, 3-6 months from now they'll already be partially outdated and many orgs will have their annual strategies finalized, so if you can, the sooner the better. If you have limited capacity, I would also find it helpful to only see the results that are easy to share, such as number of EAs per country or career stage. 

Thank you for doing this! 

FYI: Their website is www.overcome.org.uk 

(Sharing it as I had a bit of trouble finding it, it's not linked in the post and not super easy to Google as there are other therapy services have the same name. I derived it from the email you linked.)

This seems valuable and cost-effective, I hope you reached your funding goals! 

Fwiw, I'm glad we got our own forum and not just a subreddit or Twitter community, where the algorithms would optimize for engagement and do things like push controversial content instead of pushing things that actually seems most relevant for people's ability to do the most good. Many thanks for building and maintaining this! <3

I've been in touch with some of the School for Moral Ambition (SMA) co-founders and the DACH director, and my sense is that all of them are very collaborative and interested in EA or even members of the community. I think SMA and EA have quite a lot of synergies, if they keep in touch with each other and don't see each other as competition. 

I see SMA as a unique chance to reach more people and more senior professionals, and get them excited about doing the most good. They might also be able to unlock additional funding for effective charities. I'm very excited to see them grow. 

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