gergo
Bio
My name is Gergő, and my academic background is in psychology. I’m the director at the European Network for AI Safety and founder of Amplify, a marketing agency dedicated to helping fieldbuilding projects. My journey into communitybuilding started in 2019 with organising EA meetups on a volunteer basis.
I started doing full-time paid work in CB in 2021, when I founded an EA club at my university (it wasn’t supposed to be full-time at least at the beginning, but you know how it is). This grew into a city group and eventually into a national group called EA Hungary. We also spun out an AIS group in 2022, which I’m still leading. AIS Hungary is one of the few AIS groups that have 2+ FTE working for them.
Previously I was a volunteer charity analyst and analysis coordinator for SoGive, an experience I think of fondly and I’m grateful for. I have also done some academic research in psychology.
Currently leading EA UK.
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Thanks for writing this, Dom. I constantly hear that mid to senior career professionals are a bottleneck for the community. As far as I know, 80k does some AI powered job-matchmaking, but it would be really good if you could also do this, or have your group share their information with 80k, such as by filling out this census. (Maybe check with them first about what is the best way to get these people on their radar, though.)
I also wanted to offer a word of caution. For most roles, connecting a competent professional to a job listing won't be sufficient. I have written on the importance of what I call "context" here. Your people will need to upskill on EA causes and network at EAGs in order to qualitfy for these roles. Orgs are not despeate for experienced professionals, they are desperate for high-context experienced professionals (especially in leadership roles).
I would also recommend sending them to take peer-led, high-absorption courses, such as CEA's virtual program, Bluedot's courses, AIS Collab's Atlas fellowship, or Scaling Altruism's career planning program. (I asked the last to to send you their EOIs). These are a good entry step that allows people to start building context.
There are many EA groups that your members could turn to in order to connect with the local community.
It was interesting to read how explicit you are about being associated with EA, as many organisations (incl. in the giving space) are moving away from this.
We initially propsed to pitch that the principles of effective altruism allure to most employee’s background
first time for colleagues to hear about effective altruism principles.
Why do you think this worked for you? One reason this worked is that you seem to highlight the principles as opposed to the movement itself?
Great work!
Awesome, good luck on your AI Safety journey. In addition to mine, I recommend these articles:
- How Unofficial Work Gets You Hired: Building Your Surface Area for Serendipity
- There is No EA Sorting Hat
- Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Job
- Stop Applying And Get To Work
- Why experienced professionals fail to land high-impact roles (FBB #5) (Just putting this here because I want to be able to quickly share the full list with others.)
Thanks for your message, Andrew. If you have a write-up on this project please feel free to send it over by email at gergo@effectivealtruism.uk. I can also brainstorm on additinal people who you could benefit connecting with about this!