Orpheus Lummis

Founder of AI Safety Events

## Short description

AI Safety Events is an organization supporting the realization of events for the field of AI safety. (https://aisafetyevents.org/)

## Summary

AI Safety Events is a solution to the following problem, through being an organization dedicated to event operations for the field.

Problem: The research fields of AI safety are up-and-coming. There is insufficient dedicated support for research, such as service providers for event operations. Organizations and researchers desiring events (workshops, socials, retreats, etc) face an operational burden.

By way of the activities listed below, we expect an improvement in the fields of AI safety in terms of opportunities, social networking, and professionalism, as well as for more events and operations capability.

Activities of the organization:
- Organize events, such as side events at academic AI conferences
- Provide event operations servicesfor individuals, groups, orgs, etc
- Maintain an up-to-date list of upcoming events related to AI risk
- Maintain a Youtube channel of talk recordings
- Skill-up folks in event operations
- Maintain a knowledge base of event operations that is field-specific

## Project goals

The goal is building the fields of AI safety through realizing high quality events.

### Track record
We previously organized the following events (https://aisafetyevents.org/events/):
- ML Safety Social at NeurIPS 2022 (New Orleans)
- AI Safety Unconference at NeurIPS 2022 (New Orleans)
- AI Safety Unconference at NeurIPS 2019 (Vancouver) 
- AI Safety Unconference at NeurIPS 2018 (Montréal)

Project	Earliest donation	Latest donation	Total amount
AI Safety Events	4 months ago	4 months ago	$5,000
Virtual AI Safety Unconference	4 months ago	4 months ago	$40
Centre for Enabling EA Learning and Research (CEEALAR)	almost 5 years ago	almost 5 years ago	$13

Orpheus Lummis

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