AI Safety Comms Retreat
📋 About This Event
A weekend co-working unconference to propose and coordinate on concrete strategies guiding the role of comms during the upcoming transformation due to AI systems.
Dates: 13-14 September
Please plan to arrive on the evening of 12 September
Number of attendees: ~15
Venue: EA Hotel
Location: Blackpool, UK
Cost: £30/night for housing and meals
Feel free to organize your own housing if you prefer that, though it will be nice to have all the attendees at the EA Hotel
Financial Aid: Available for some attendees
Travel: Participants cover their own transport to/from Blackpool
🛠️ Retreat Details
This co-working unconference will be lightly structured with some downtime, and we intend that attendees will be able to continue their regular professional work during the retreat if they wish to.
We will organize group meals, workshops and structured 1:1s, and evening activities. We will also incorporate design features from unconferences, encouraging attendees to create their own workshops and events throughout the course of the retreat.
👥 Organizers
Vishakha Agrawal
I am contracting with a bunch of AI safety orgs/initiatives.
More about me on my LinkedIn.
🎯 Why This Work Matters
AI x-safety communications are necessary to ensure that society understands and addresses the existential risks of advanced AI before it’s too late.
We need people syncing on strategy, cross-pollinating, and syncing on what messages to send.
🏡 About the Venue: EA Hotel
Home to ~20 ambitious, kind, and interesting people trying to save the world.
Amenities
Library
1.5 co-working spaces
2 small event rooms
2 full kitchens
A small in-house gym & patio garden
Home-cooked vegan dinners will be provided every day. Breakfast and lunch are self serve from the ingredients we have or leftovers from dinners.
There are several cafés, restaurants and convenience stores within 10 min walking distance, a beach at 2 min walking distance, a gym 10 min walk away, and a huge park 20 min walk away.
20 min walk to the train station
~1 hr train to Liverpool/Manchester
~3.5hr train to London
Unapologetically bold night life
Very walkable
Theme park, arcades
1h30m train ride to the iconic Lake District
🌊 Seafront
The main attraction of Blackpool! We go to the beach practically every day, it’s just a five minute walk away. We have walked, ran, eaten, meditated, and swam there. It’s absolutely gorgeous during sunsets, which are right above the water. It’s kept super clean and there’s plenty of seating if you just want to admire the view or keep out of the sand.
🧗 Climbing
There’s an affordable bouldering and rope climbing gym nearby (£7/session), which several of our residents go to regularly.
🐦 Ribble Estuary
Birds aren’t real.
The Ribble Estuary, one of the UK’s most important wetlands:
Hosts over 250,000 migratory birds annually
Excellent for birdwatching
Just 20 minutes away
The Waves, St Johns’s Square
Pleasure Beach
Dunes
Beach and Tower
Illuminations
Apparently the largest disco ball in the world
Ribble Estuary
📬 Stay in Touch
I will share more details in the coming weeks.
For now, if you have any questions, feel free to send me an email at vishakha.agrawal09@gmail.com or use the contact the host button at the end of the page.