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Weronika Żurek 🔸

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Fish welfareBuilding effective altruismAnimal welfareAI safetyField-building

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I am currently the Community and Operations Manager at BlueDot. 

Previously, I  was a Fieldbuilding Fellow at Astra Fellowship, with a focus on talent needs in AI safety. In 2024, I set up the EA group at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland (currently a city-wide EA group for students).  Even before that, I was a volunteer at Anima International (2017-2023), where I ran a local volunteer group and a campaign team.

I hold a Master's degree in applied psychology. I usually spend my free time doing arts  or engaging in sports.

If there's anything I could help you with, please have a very low bar for reaching out to me at [email protected]. 

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 know a lot of fun facts about bumblebees, which I am just as happy to share.

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Talent Constraints in AI Safety: What We Know and What We Don’t
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Thanks for pointing that out! You (and your Claude) are correct, there are some people who have experience in fieldbuilding somewhere in the world. However, this is a very niche background, and people who have it are very difficult to find. If you're looking for a person with this type of background for your organisation, there are no obvious groups that you could reach out to as a potential employer; as far as I know, there are no communities that bring together fieldbuilders from different fields (as compared to communities of IT specialists working in different fields, or scientists from different sciences); you can't even easily headhunt them via LinkedIn, because the official names of their positions probably do not include the world "fieldbuilding". What I meant in the specific sentence you refer to is that there are close to no pools, and not close to no fieldbuilders. Happy to discuss further if you have follow-up questions!

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Talent Constraints in AI Safety: What We Know and What We Don’t
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Ooooh thank you so much, Lili! Can't wait to meet you at the next EAG <3

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What 3,654 Job Postings Tell Us About Talent Needs in AI Safety
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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!

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What 3,654 Job Postings Tell Us About Talent Needs in AI Safety
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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 

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Building the Field of AI Safety
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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!

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