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<aside> 📌 In our experience, groups with only one organizer are significantly less likely to succeed, which is why if you are in this situation, we strongly recommend you at least attempt to find a co-organizer to help you out. Here you can find some tips on doing so.

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1. Utilizing Fellowships

You could run an in-person fellowship if you are in a position to run a fellowship by yourself or start a paper reading group to build a low-stakes group and enable you to eventually source a co-organizer from the group. You can:

• Advertise the group to participants at your university.
• At the end of the program, meet with any participants that are interested in joining a group.
• Determine if anyone from the group would be a viable co-founder.

We can provide you with marketing and outreach advice and support during Not Dumb Question chats with Neav and Agus.

2. Finding AI Safety talent in your city/university

Other ways to find potential co-organizers:

• Ask your friends who are interested in AI safety. Even if you don't know other people who are deeply interested in AI safety, you could ask a few friends who are curious about AI safety to attend your first few events.
• Ask existing AI safety connections if they know anyone else in your area.
• Create flyers and hang them around your university. Use a QR code to link to a Google Doc with more information. The poster could say something like, “Interested in AI safety? Sign up here to get in touch.”
• Run a table at your university’s organization's fair. Having participants fill out a Google form with their contact info. Schedule 1:1 chats with them to talk more about their interest in AI safety and whether they’d be interested in helping to organize.
• Search in key slack groups like the AI Alignment slack, AIS Groups slack, and slack groups for popular courses like BlueDot, Arena, etc. for people in your area.
• Search on LinkedIn. Search for specific keywords like “AI safety,” “BlueDot,” “machine learning,” “ARENA,” and “effective altruism.” Then select “see all people results” → “all filters” and filter by your city or school.
• Ask CS/ML/AI professors if they can advertise for you in an email to students. Maybe wait until you have a group to ask to speak before a class starts.
• Ask us if we know anyone in your area.
  • We have access to lots of university students interested in AI safety through our SPAR and GCP data!

Note that some groups have successfully employed the strategy of sourcing members from another nearby university’s AI safety group to help kickstart their group.