Osmani 🔹
Director @ IAS (Spain)
I'm Osmani, Madrid-based, focused on AI Safety education. I founded AI Safety Madrid and Women4AISafety España, and coordinate BlueDot Impact Spain and co-facilitate ENAIS/AIS Collab Spanish cohorts. I'm interested in how we can make AI Safety education work across languages and support professionals who want to contribute but don't know where to start.
Outside of this, I mentor at 42 Madrid and teach AI Safety/Governance at executive programmes in Madrid.
Thank you for this.. Karen thank you. I've been trying to say what you wrote for a while now.
I run an AI safety group, in Spain. I started getting into AI Safety as most people do. What really made sense to me was BlueDot Impact´s AGI Safety course. Before that I knew AI safety was a concern. I didn't know what to do about it.
After that course I did the AI Safety Operations Bootcamp also from BlueDot Impact, because I needed to know how to do this work in a way and I couldn't find that information anywhere else. It helped me. It also showed me how much I still had to learn.
One thing I've noticed is that people don't think ops work is unimportant. It gets ignored when its done well. Someone has to keep things running so researchers can do their job. I thought about doing research myself, but honestly I think I'm more useful doing ops work. I just wish it was clearer how to do this work.
Directors of regional groups I've spoken with all say the same thing: the work is real and there are people doing it, but without a clear path or credentials, good people drift toward roles where that structure exists. The field loses them quietly.
I agree with Agustín that we need to understand the context of our work. You can't just run a group on good intentions. It takes time and knowledge of the field.
I'm really glad this program exists.
@gergo congrats!
Wow Tristan, Wow!
Thanks for putting this together, I read it carefully and it’s incredibly useful for career planning.
A fully structured overview like this is rare.
I especially appreciated the split between career choice (aptitudes > causes) and job search (treating rejections as normal, building capital outside EA), and how clearly you highlight ops/management as a real gap.
The “no sorting hat”, “fit first”, and “apply widely but expect slow vetting” framing is spot‑on. It also matches what we see locally in terms of timelines and expectations.
I’ll be using this as a reference in intro sessions and advising conversations here in Madrid, it’s one of the clearest maps of career landscape I’ve seen. 🥳
Wow, great job, I really enjoyed how you integrated the five considerations into a coherent framework, especially the parts on moral seriousness and the career‑donations relationship.
I know several people working full‑time in AIS who had never considered that their donations might need to reflect other parts of their values.
I think this kind of structure would be especially useful in newer or non‑English‑speaking communities (e.g., EA groups in Spanish), where many people arrive with strong intuitions about global poverty but much less exposure to longtermism.
If you ever turn this into a more pedagogical resource (a graphic, a short checklist, concrete splits like 60/25/15, etc.), it will be very helpful to use it in intro sessions here in EA Madrid and in other Spanish‑speaking groups. 💪🏽
Hello @Toby Tremlett I'm planning to write about building AI Safety education infrastructure for Spanish-speaking communities.
The post would cover: why the current English-only ecosystem creates real talent bottlenecks, what's needed beyond just running study groups (facilitator training, community infrastructure, sustainable funding models), and what I'm learning as I start coordinating EA Madrid and exploring these questions with the community.
Would this be valuable for the Forum?
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I really appreciate you sharing this. The work you’re building speaks to me, and I’d like to apply for the role. Wishing you all the best with Impact First and the New Year 🥳
Simón, gracias por abrir esta conversación tan necesaria.
Participo en EA Madrid y estoy estudiando con BlueDot Impact, y una de las primeras barreras que vi fue exactamente esta: la ausencia casi total de recursos en español para quienes quieren profundizar más allá de lo básico.
Coincido completamente en que no se trata solo de traducir, sino de generar contenido original que dialogue con las realidades de nuestros contextos. Cuando intento explicar AI safety o cost-effectiveness a colegas en Madrid o a mi red en Colombia, constantemente me encuentro traduciendo no solo palabras, sino conceptos que necesitan ser reenmarcados para que resuenen en nuestras realidades.
Tu punto sobre la producción académica es crucial. He visto de primera mano cómo la "apariencia foránea" de EA genera resistencia en círculos profesionales y académicos en España y LatAm. Sin un corpus robusto en español que demuestre la aplicabilidad de estas ideas a nuestros contextos específicos, seguiremos siendo percibidos como un movimiento importado.
Respecto a la pregunta de Agustín sobre sacrificar alcance: creo que hay espacio para ambos. Posts sobre experiencias de community building en contextos hispanohablantes, adaptaciones de programas como BlueDot Impact a LatAm, o análisis de cost-effectiveness en políticas públicas específicas de nuestra región son inherentemente más valiosos en español, incluso si su alcance global es menor.
Me sumo a la invitación. Soy cloud architect en transición hacia roles de operations en EA, con experiencia en gobernanza de IA, y estaría encantada de contribuir escribiendo sobre:
¿Siguen activos los esfuerzos de UPB? Me interesaría conocer más sobre la convocatoria de artículos.
This resonates deeply, especially the line: "Organizations without clear stories hit friction, even when doing excellent work."
I've seen this in my own career transition into EA, I had the skills and the commitment, but until I could articulate why my background in international partnerships and data operations connected to AI safety and global health work, I struggled to make others see the fit.
Your framework around Mission → ToC → OKRs → KPIs → Team is brilliant because it shows that organizational storytelling isn't just "marketing" – it's strategic clarity that enables faster alignment, better partnerships, and ultimately more impact.
The section on authenticity being non-negotiable particularly stands out in the EA context. Being transparent about uncertainty and limitations isn't weakness; it's what builds trust in a community that values epistemic rigor.
Thank you for writing this. It's a reminder that even in a movement focused on evidence and outcomes, we still need to remember we're communicating with humans who understand the world through narrative.
Focused on scale of suffering and cost-effectiveness across my votes. Particularly excited about Latin American organizations (ACTRA, Vida Plena) given the region's potential and underinvestment. Animal sentience weighs significantly in my cause prioritization.