Weronika Żurek 🔸

Fieldbuilding Fellow @ Astra Fellowship
454 karmaJoined Working (0-5 years)

Bio

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I am currently a Fieldbuilding Fellow at the Astra Fellowship, and I focus my work on hiring needs and talent pipelines in the AI safety community. 

Previously I was a volunteer at Anima International (2017-2023), where I ran a local volunteer group and a campaign team. In 2024, I set up the EA group at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland (currently a city-wide EA group for students). 

I hold a Master's degree in applied psychology. I usually spend my free time doing arts (painting, drawing, crocheting, sewing, and others) or engaging in physical activities (dancing, bouldering, cycling, climbing trees). 

Please have a very low bar for reaching out. I am happy to talk to every person in the EA or AI safety community.

How others can help me

I am looking for a job in AI safety fieldbuilding starting from autumn 2026. Let me know if you're aware of an interesting opening!

How I can help others

I have some takes on EA community building and AI safety fieldbuilding, which I am happy to share. I also have a lot of fun facts about bumblebees, which I am just as happy to share.

Comments
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I would love to do that in a year from now and see what changes. I am also currently working on some more things that might help put the numbers from this post in context - I hope to publish them in the upcoming weeks!

In the current cycle (January-June 2026), there are only two fellows in the fieldbuilding track. For the next cycle (September 2026 - February 2027), there will  be no fieldbuilding track at all. Instead, there will be a separate program called Generator Residency, which is organised by Constellation and Kairos. You can find the details here: https://generatorresidency.org/?utm_source=ais-groups&utm_medium=slack&utm_campaign=summer-26 

I am so happy to see this career profile. If we want to scale the field, we really need more great fieldbuilders, and this type of work has not been getting enough attention from career advisory organisations. Thank you,  80 k!

I am happy to hear that it was helpful for you, Mia!

Thank you so much for speaking up, Frances. What you wrote is heartbreaking and should have never taken place. I am deeply disappointed both about how CEA failed to react to the harm, and how they responded to your post. This is a significant negative update on an organisation that I truly trusted before.

I expect that factory farming will become even more harmful as a result of AGI

Thank you so much for sharing that, Guney. I will definitely use some of your ideas

I believe an important piece of information here is that Open Phil did not provide funding for organizers spending less than 10 h/week organizing their groups (or at least that was the case when I was applying for funding), so I suppose most of the funded students were probably working on the topic a bit more than that (this is a guess, though)

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