Love seeing posts like this!

Something like a big version of SERI-Mats ... (My impression is that SERI-Mats could become this one day, but I’d also be excited to see more programs “compete” with SERI-Mats).

At EAG-SF I asked a MATS organizer if we could get other versions of MATS, e.g. a MATS competitor at MIT. Their response was that only one of the two could survive because there are currently only ~15 people capable of doing this kind of mentorship. Mentors are the bottleneck for scaling up programs like MATS, not field builders.

Targeted Outreach to Experienced Researchers

Isn't Vael Gates already mostly focused on this? ("My projects tend to be aimed more at outreach and at older populations– AI researchers, academia and industry.") Curious what the main benefits are of a separate project.

Understanding AI trends and AI safety outreach in China

See this comment: Tianxia focuses on building the longtermist community, while Concordia focuses on all things AI, including recruiting STEM undergrads and AI grad students to start working on AI safety. I think you already know this, so I'm wondering why you think it's not enough to focus on scaling up these existing orgs.

AIS Contests and Subproblems

Might want to mention CAIS here?

Something that helps people skill-up in AIS, management, community-building, applied rationality, and other useful stuff.

I don't see why people need to be good at management and community building if they end up doing AIS technical research. Maybe you're using "generalists" to mean "people who will start new AIS orgs/projects"?

Help them find therapists, PAs, nutritionists, friends, etc.

Ops teams can take care of some of this. AI Safety Support offers a completely free health coach for people working on AI safety. More importantly, I think an executive assistant who works exclusively for Paul Christiano would save him more time than a larger org that can't work with him as closely.  MacAskill certainly has assistants, and the top alignment researchers should as well. I think your idea is to have an org that executive assistants can outsource some common tasks to?

Is there a reason why organising an AI Alignment conference is not on the list? It seems to be one of the more successful things CEA has done for the EA field.

Why are people downvoting this post? I hope people didn't read my comment as some sort of refutation (it wasn't); I think Akash has proposed some good ideas to discuss.