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Hey there! I'm Gergő, co-director for The European Network for AI Safety (ENAIS) and founder of EA Hungary and Budapest AI Safety.
If you would like to connect with the Hungarian EA/AIS communities please feel free to message me! We host lots of events! :)
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This sounds really amazing, thanks for creating such a service. I would love to apply and take part, but with my current workload, I feel I wouldn't be able to 4-6 hours per week to the program and I suspect many others are in a similar situation.
Do you think it would be possible to share the materials/exercises for those who would be interested in doing the program at their own pace, asynchronously, kind of like it was a workbook? (I realize sharing it would probably be not this straightforward as it was developed for groups, but I thought I would ask:) )
EA Hungary Head of Communications/Operations, early 2024
We are currently looking for highly motivated individual to join the team of EA Hungary. In this form you can apply for the position. Please make sure to read the full description before applying.
Selection process: We expect to have 2 or 3 rounds. First round being this application form. Applicants continuning to the next stage will have one or two additional interviews/work tasks.
Salary: 9-12 USD per hour (pre-tax). For exceptional candidates we might be able to offer a higher rate up to an additional 1-10 USD per hour.
(Income tax in Hungary for people under 25 is 0%, above is 33%. For students above 25 years old it is 15%, but you will have to double-check this with your accountant.)
Workload: This is a part-time position. We expect to make an offer for between 15 to 30 hours per week. If our courses get an exceptionally high application rate, we might be able to offer additional hours.
A full time role has 25 days per year of paid vacation, accordingly a part time position would have between ~9 to ~19 days of paid vacation per year.
Contract period: Starting around early March, you'd have a contract for 6 months with a 2 month-long trial period after which your performance will be evaluated. Around month 4-5, we will evaluate your progress again, based on which we can offer you a contract for an additional 6 months.
More about this role:
EA Hungary is currently run by its founder, Gergő Gáspár, and its current Head of Operations, Milán Alexy, as well as a number of committed volunteers. We are looking for an additional person to the team and would be happy to tailor the role towards their strengths, hence the possibility of joining either as an operations or communications person.
Example tasks for the operations role:
- Preparing and running meetups and events
- Coordinating our fellowships (e.g., evaluating applications, sorting people into groups based on their availability, supporting our mentors, booking and preparing venues with food and reading materials, etc.)
Example tasks for the communications role:
- Communicating with our partners via email/calls
- Marketing our programs (e.g., marketing on social media, reaching out to professors and academic dormitories, giving a short "pitch" of our program to university classes, tabling, distributing leaflets, etc.)
- Writing newsletters
- Public speaking (desirable but not essential)
Additional example tasks for both roles:
- Giving career advice
- Facilitating fellowships
- Supporting volunteers
We expect to see some additional overlap between the two roles as our organisation evolves.
An ideal candidate:
- Is passionate about making the world a better place using EA principles
- Has a good understanding of EA concepts (at least equivalent to having done the at-home reading version of the introductory course and the in-depth course)
- Knowledgeable about the main EA cause areas and the organisations working on them
- Has great attention to detail, has good interpersonal skills
More about this role:
You will be working closely with EA Hungary founder Gergő Gáspár and other members of the team. We expect that about 50-60% of your work hours will be "on-site" (either holding sessions or coworking with team members), with the rest of your work hours being possible to do online. The first 2 weeks of onboarding will be 100% in-person.
Location: Budapest, Hungary.
Deadline to apply: 2024. February 12.
Apply here!
With any questions, please write to gergo@eahungary.com
Budapest AI Safety Technical Lead application form early 2024
We are currently looking for a highly motivated individual to join the team of Budapest AI Safety. In this form you can apply for the position.
Selection process: We expect to have 2 or 3 rounds. First round being this application form. Applicants continuning to the next stage will have one or two additional interviews/work tasks.
Salary: 9-12 USD per hour (pre-tax). For exceptional candidates we might be able to offer a higher rate up to an additional 1-10 USD per hour.
(Income tax in Hungary for people under 25 is 0%, above is 33%. For students above 25 years old it is 15%, but you will have to double-check this with your accountant.)
Workload: This is a part-time position. We expect to make an offer for between 0.25 FTE to 0.6 FTE, but are unlikely to offer more than 15 hours per week for the first 6 months. If our courses get an exceptionally high application rate, we might be able to offer additional hours.
A full time role has 25 days per year of paid vacation, accordingly a part time position would have between ~6 to ~15 days of paid vacation per year.
Contract period: Starting around early March, you'd have a contract for 6 months with a 2 month-long trial period after which your performance will be evaluated. Around month 4-5, we will evaluate your progress again, based on which we can offer you a contract for an additional 6 months.
Skills/experience/responsonsibilities for this role:
Essential:
- Ability to give valuable career advice and help people new to technical AI Safety reseach orient in the field
- Facilitating AGISF
- Supporting volunteers
- Leading student-level research projects
- Contributing to our newsletter section on technical AIS
Desirable:
- Being able to support the post-AGISF part of the AI Safety pipeline by facilitating advanced courses and leading small research projects
- Research experience in Alignment
- Public speaking experience
Depending on the amount of your work hours and the capacity of the rest of the team, you might also be asked to do some operations-related work in a smaller capacity, such as:
- Evaluating applications, sorting people into groups based on their availability, supporting our mentors, booking and preparing venues with food and reading materials, etc.)
- Marketing our programs (eg. marketing on social media, reaching out to professors and academic dormitories, giving a short "pitch" of our program to university classes, tabling, distributing leaflets, etc.)
An ideal candidate:
- Is passionate about AI Safety
- Knowledgeable about the main threat models and technical research agendas within AIS and the organisations working on them
- Has good interpersonal skills
Location: Budapest, Hungary or remote (please read the additional information below)
If we are unable to find a suitable candidate we will consider hiring someone fully remote, so feel free to apply for this role even if you are only interested in a remote position. In this case, we will hold onto your application until we have evaluated candidates who are based in Budapest or are willing to move here. If we don't find a suitable candidate we will start processing fully remote applications. If you are only interested in a remote position, for now it's enough if you answer the first 4 questions of this form. If we start evaluating remote candidates, we will notify you to answer the rest of the questions.
More about this role:
You will be working closely with Budapest AI Safety founder Gergő Gáspár and other members of the team. We expect that about 50-60% of your work hours will be "on-site" (either holding sessions or coworking with team members), with the rest of your work hours being possible to do online. The first 2 weeks of onboarding will be 100% in-person.
Deadline to apply: 2024 February 12.
Apply here.
With any questions, please write to gergo@eahungary.com
Hey DoGooder!
Welcome to the forum! This is indeed a super important, as well complicated question. I don't have a confident opinion, but thought I would point out some potential cruxes that might help you to form a view on this!
- The specific type of the animal that people are eating is going to be pretty important, see this video for a quick summary as to why. Reading and thinking about moral weights is going to be relevant here too.
- How would you balance suffering caused to animals vs. reducing poverty by purchasing products vs. harm caused by the emissions of such products. Huh this is a difficult one, perhaps reading "Important Between-Cause Considerations: things every EA should know about" can offer a start into thinking about this.
- How bad do you think it is if a e.g. chicken is killed if they had a decent life? Reading about population ethics will be relevant here. On specifically the badness of death, I think HLI has a very good article that shows how different theories think about this.
There is probably a bunch of other considerations that don't come to mind at the moment, but hope some of these will be useful!
Also I just wanted to mention that I know a couple of EAs who are originally from Pakisan but live in Hungary, as well as a person living in Pakistan - if you would like to be connected to them ping me a private message!
Thanks for sharing these updates!
A minor feedback I would give is that at least to me, the title gives the impression that this post is only about payouts that happened in March 2024. While this is clarified at the very beginning, I think something like the full duration, or the no. of months could be mentioned in the title, as this will be relevant for people who are deciding on whether to click on the post or not.