Set up an AIS newsletter for your group in 10 minutes per month (June edition)

To my knowledge, most local EA/AIS groups don’t have a regular AI Safety newsletter. This seems like a low-hanging fruit that I could fix relatively easily, given that my group has one that has gotten positive feedback. 

By following these three steps, you can set up an AIS newsletter for your EA or AI Safety group in ~10 minutes.

1. Make a copy of this document for this month’s (June 2024) newsletter.
2. Fill out the relevant spaces and make some adjustments for your context.
3. Send it out to your members 
   1. I would appreciate it if you could cc. [email protected] so I get a sense of how many groups end up using it
4. (Optional) Fill out this form to get notified for next month’s newsletter.

Additional thoughts:

-If this seems useful for others, I will share each month's newsletter around the 15th.

-Please note that this newsletter is somewhat geared towards European groups, but by making some adjustments you should be able to make it useful for groups outside of Europe as well.

-With any questions, or if you would like to help customize the newsletter for other regions in the future, please reach out to [email protected]

-There are a lot of great AIS newsletters out there, but based on talking to attendees at EAGx conferences, it seems like not that many people know about them. Therefore, local group organisers are in a unique position to share information, as their members are already subscribed to the group’s mailing list (but likely not to others).

-The “What We have been reading” section’s articles are hand-picked from those awesome newsletters^[1], but tailored for an audience that is new to AI Safety.

1. ^{^}

   Here are the newsletters that either I or the rest of the EA Hungary team follows, I recommend signing up to them yourself! :) 
   EA Forum Digest (best recent writings on the EA forum, not only AIS but very good)

   Centre for AI Safety (in my opinion the best AIS newsletter)

   Monthly Overload of Effective Altruism (not only AIS, but has a lot of materials on AI technical stuff and governance, as well as recent news, one of the “go to” sources of info)

   Planned Obsolescence (Blog of AIS researcher, posts pretty rarely)

   Daniel Paleka: AI safety takes (Summaries of new technical AIS research papers)

   Import AI (a newsletter about AI research)

   AI Safety Fundamentals newsletter 

   ML Safety Newsletter

   80,000 Hours newsletter (on high impact careers, also includes a free book and career guide)

   Don't Worry About the Vase (this is the closest blog I know of that is kind of able to keep track of what’s happening with AI)

   The EU AI Act newsletter  

   Doing Westminster Better (mostly UK AI policy)
   
   3-Shot Learning by Centre For AI Policy (US-based AI Policy)

   Centre for Security and Emerging Technology