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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
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The Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) is a nonprofit food security organization that aims to help build resilience to global catastrophic food system failures. ALLFED has a mature volunteering system for those contributors who want to invest their time in reducing global catastrophic risk. We have prepared a new database of research projects for volunteers interested in food security for global catastrophic scenarios, which you can find here. You can send your expression of interest for these projects in this form.
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The Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) is a nonprofit food security organization that aims to help build resilience to global catastrophic food shocks. We work on research, policy, and technology development: research to find the most promising interventions against these catastrophes, policy to transfer our recommendations to decision makers, and technology development to ensure that our recommendations are tested and the necessary technologies are available to respond.
At Alliance To Feed The Earth In Disasters (ALLFED), we see feeding all and preserving biodiversity in a catastrophe as something achievable – through advance planning, collaboration, communication, and research.
Volunteers play a key role in these goals, and this spreadsheet provides an overview of research – and, in some cases, other – endeavors for which candidates can apply. Successful volunteers would e.g. participate in collaborative meetings, utilize creative and strategic thinking and rigorous methods, get experience in publishing peer-reviewed papers, as well as conduct other project-specific tasks.
All of this and more can be done from anywhere in the world, on any timezone, and largely on a schedule that works for you – the program is characterized by exceptional flexibility and support, and we have significant experience integrating and managing volunteers. Some of our core, long-standing team members got involved through volunteering!
Note that this database contains only research projects, whereas we also accept expressions of interest for people who want to volunteer in topics such as operations or communications. You can read more here.
Appendix: list of project titles