Help (re)start AI Safety at UPenn!

Rising sophomores Rhone and Hazem are restarting the AI Safety group at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), which was active until late 2024, and are recruiting students and organizers to join. They are supported by the AI Safety Seeding Initiative and are seeking help with organizing, facilitating fellowships, and running a student newsletter. Interested individuals can contact Hazem at hazemh@upenn.edu.

Cross-posted to EA Forum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CZjZyRYBhLeQi5iA6/help-re-start-ai-safety-at-upenn Rhone https://www.lesswrong.com/users/galchen2 and I, both rising sophomores, are restarting Penn's AI Safety group, which was quite active until late 2024. Please join us, or point us toward people who might be interested unsure how to help? See the last section . So: AI is hot among students and institutionally supported 1 ; there are dozens of people with technical expertise relevant to AI safety 2 ; strong AI-capability ideas are not foreign on campus 3 ; and there is an active community to recruit from 4 . If you are down to help organize, facilitate a fellowship esp. a policy-focused one? , or even help run this student newsletter about AI safety https://pennai.substack.com/ ... PLEASE shoot me a DM or email me at hazemh at upenn dot edu. You can also send this post to people you think might be interested, undergraduate and graduate students alike. P.S. Huge thanks to Thomas https://www.lesswrong.com/users/thomasrodskog and the AI Safety Seeding Initiative https://aisafetyseeding.org/ for pushing us to get this started, and to everyone I met at EAG x s who told me I should really do this If you're at a university without an active AI Safety group, you should book a 20-minute call https://aisafetyseeding.org/ book with them or refer someone https://aisafetyseeding.org/refer/