CEEALAR
CEEALAR (EA Hotel) hosts global changemakers, providing lodging, vegan meals, and community. Residents pursue world-improving and risk-averting projects
What pursuits these may be will vary from person to person. Some grantees come to upskill—whether through formal programs or self-directed learning—preparing themselves to contribute effectively to high-impact causes. Other grantees are researchers, in need of stability and slack to pursue deep work (over the years, many AI alignment researchers have called CEEALAR home). Finally, aspiring charity entrepreneurs use their time at CEEALAR to develop new projects, often meeting potential collaborators along the way.
CEEALAR's commitment to AI safety has further deepened in recent times. From September through the end of 2024, the center will host the "AI Winter" initiative, featuring workshops, boot camps, and hackathons, all meant to advance research and collaboration in AI safety.
Organizers
Greg Colbourn
Organizer
Greg founded CEEALAR (the EA Hotel) in 2018. He is now very concerned about AI x-risk. He is a supporter of Pause AI.
Dušan D. Nešić
Organizer
CEELAR Trustee. Professor of Finance and Economics, consultant of Communication, Operations, and Education. Executive Director @ PIBBSS, Founder of EA Serbia, Belgrade AI Safety, and SpEAk.
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith is a trustee at CEEALAR and an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Mississippi State University
David Staley
CEEALAR Operations and Community Manager. Generalist autodidact, futurist. Has spent over a decade studying the systems of our civilization and concluded that AI is the determining factor of our future.
Pietro Rizzo
CEEALAR Operations and Community Manager. Pietro likes to imagine what a functional local community may look like – an exercise which the advent of AI makes certainly more complex, hopefully not futile.
Host a site for the next Sprint
Next Sprint: AI Collusion Research Sprint, Oct 23 - 25, 2026. Host a local site and participants near you will find it on the Sprint’s page.