AI Safety Poland Updates - Q1 2026
New Polish AI safety initiative, fiscally sponsored by EA Poland, has grown from 2 to a team of PhDs and volunteers.
AI Safety Poland has formally launched as a project fiscally sponsored by Effective Altruism Poland, marking a significant organizational step for the Central European AI safety community. The initiative began in late 2025 when Marcel Windys and Jakub Nowak from the Polish EA community created a dedicated Slack workspace. They were quickly joined by key figures with deep technical and academic roots: Jakub Kryś, PhD, a MATS fellow and SaferAI researcher offering career consulting, and Patryk Wielopolski, PhD, a Research Manager at MATS with strong connections in Polish ML academia. This founding quintet established the initiative's first pillars: a new Polish-language website (aisafety.org.pl), a series of technical webinars, and initial in-person networking.
In its first few months, the group has demonstrated remarkable momentum, transitioning from online coordination to a robust schedule of real-world events. They hosted their first in-person meetup at the MLinPL 2025 conference and have since organized a 'Tour de Pologne' of events in major cities like Warsaw and Kraków. Their activities include specialized workshops (e.g., 'Build Your Own GPT-2' with Warsaw University of Technology) and a strategic collaboration with NASK, Poland's national research institute for cybersecurity and AI. The team has also expanded to include volunteers like Social Media Designer Anna Szalwa and coordinator Piotr Kędziora, broadening their operational capacity for content and event production.
- Founded by 2 EA community members, now fiscally sponsored by EA Poland and led by a team including multiple PhDs and MATS affiliates.
- Hosted 5+ technical webinars and workshops on topics like LLM unlearning and chain-of-thought monitorability, plus in-person meetups in Warsaw and Kraków.
- Established key partnerships with Polish academia (Warsaw University of Technology) and the national research institute NASK for collaborative events.
Why It Matters
Establishes a structured, academically-grounded hub for AI safety research and talent development in a key Central European tech region.