Teams of PauseAI

PauseAI consists almost exclusively of volunteers (sign up here

). We are organized in teams, each working on a different aspect of our movement. Every team has a leader, regular meetings, and a Role on the discord server

. Check out the vacancies to see some specific roles that you could take.

• Funding
  • Write grant requests, stay in touch with funders
  • Make sure donations are working
  • Manage strategic communications surrounding grants & donations, including the pages for theory of change and roadmap
  Team leader: Joep Meindertsma
• Mass Mobilization
  • Facilitate the formation of local groups.
  • Set up the structure to make it easy for people to join and start a local group.
  • Lead the Organizer meetings, where local organizers share ideas and improve on their local groups.
  Team leader: Guido Reichstadter
• Partnership
  • Find common goals and potential for collaborate
  • Keep track of which orgs are reached out to, who're in touch with who
  Team leader: Chris Gerrby
• Oversight
  • Keep track of the progress of the various teams.
  • Chat regularly with team leaders.
  • Identify needs for teams (most notably skills, people) and help find these.
  • Make sure that the teams are functioning well (have a leader, have regular meetings, share their meeting minutes).
  • Manage internal information (Google Drive)
  Team leader: Felix De Simone
• ECI
  • Set up a treaty draft.
  • Set up a European Citizen’s Initiative petition
  • Get 1.000.000 signatures through a large-scale EU-wide campaign.
  Team leader: Giulia Consonni
• Lobby
  • Send emails to politicians.
  • Meet with politicians.
  • Make sure our CRM is functional.
  • Educate PauseAI members about lobby actions.
  Team leader: Felix De Simone
• Protest
  • Plan (international) protests, set dates, respond to events
  • Make sure the Social Media & Press teams are helping out where needed
  • Have a clear message and strategy for protests
  • Empower local protest organizers, give them materials and educate them
  Team leader: William Baird
• Onboarding
  • Welcome new members who join through Discord, newsletter or fill in the join  form.
  • Help new members find their way around and help them find a team or project to join.
  Team leader: Maxime Fournes
• Social Media
  • Make content (including videos) and posts for the various social media platforms.
  • Engage with others and answer questions. You can find us on Discord
    , Twitter
    , Facebook
    , TikTok
    , LinkedIn
    , YouTube
    and Instagram
    .
  Team leader: Joep Meindertsma
• Organisers
  • Report back on how local organizing efforts have been going
  • Share best practices with other local organizers
  Team leader: Felix De Simone
• Microgrants
  • Decide on which Microgrants applications are funded
  • Manage the Microgrants process and page
  Team leader: Joep Meindertsma
• Data Science
  • Use surveys and data analysis to understand what people think about AI risks and how they can be convinced.
  Team leader: Joseph Miller
• Discord
  • Moderate the Discord server.
  • Optimize the Discord onboarding process.
  • Set relevant Roles and Channels.
  Team leader: Patricio Vercesi
• Press
  • Write press releases.
  • Maintain the /press  page (including materials and a list of articles about PauseAI).
  • Contacting journalists and getting articles published about AI risks and PauseAI.
  Team leader: Hugo Guzman
• Software
  • Maintain the website, the Discord bot, the CRM and other software tools.
  Team leader: Maxime Fournes
• Action Portfolio
  • Make it easy for members to take meaningful actions.
  • Have a portfolio of a select few projects that PauseAI can officially endorse and support.
  • Host the public Action meetings, where members share their activities and progress.
  Team leader: Chris Gerrby

Become a volunteer

If you want to join one of the teams, reach out to the team leader and sign up as a volunteer!