Scaling AI Safety in Europe: From Local Groups to International Coordination

Published on September 2, 2025 11:36 PM GMTTL;DR: A Distributed Approach to European AI Safety CoordinationDisclaimer: I wrote this post a couple of months ago and didn’t get to publish it then. Relative time specifications have to be seen in this context. Although some of my opinions have slightly changed since writing this, I think there is still a lot of good stuff in there, so I am just putting it out now.Over the past months, I have spent a bit of time reflecting on the condition of the AI safety ecosystem in Europe. This has led me to develop a field-building strategy to improve collaboration on AI safety in Europe. The strategy also lays out a path to increase public awareness of risks from AGI. In this post, I will share my insights and lay out a distributed approach towards European AI safety coordination.I also plan to execute these ideas from Zürich over the course of this year and am optimistic about this project. However, there clearly is uncertainty in how exactly individual parts of this strategy will work out.Part of the strategy presented in this post builds on what Severin T. Seehrich calls "Information Infrastructure" in his post onhttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QRST9ctX5Cu2dM2Sb/agi-safety-field-building-projects-i-d-like-to-see

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