[Recapped here](https://jasonbenn.com/community/10-the-unconference-to-community-pipeline). Excerpts: > Califlorence: Aligned AGI had 56 applicants that were at least 40% open to coliving. A group is just now starting to assemble. Their new 12BR (18BR next year) is scheduled to open October 1st (although it might be delayed because our renovation plans might get Discretionary Reviewed due to an ornery neighbor — welcome to real estate in San Francisco). > Attendees this time included **governance experts** like State Senator Scott Wiener, who’s currently drafting AI legislation for CA; Jonathan Kreiss-Tompkins, a State Senator with experience overseeing Alaska’s quasi-UBI; and researchers like Richard Ngo; **alignment experts** like Jan Leike, the co-lead of superalignment at OpenAI; **AGI builders** including leadership and technical staff building AGI at OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic; the authors of many of our favorite papers; and chipmaking founders; **forecasters** like Danny Hernandez of Anthropic and many Scaling Laws papers; **labor impacts specialists** like Zack Exley, who ran Bernie’s fundraising in 2016 and coauthored the Green New Deal; **open-source advocates** like Ben Brooks, head of policy at Stability AI, who did an admirable job staying cool under the withering pressure of the Califlorence Inquisition; **funders** of the next wave of AGIs, including a member of the PayPal Mafia; and **lots more**, including folks working on ARC Evals, AI for science, geopolitics, and mitigating harms. > The next thing to improve in our unconferences is **better** **guidance for session facilitators**. There wasn’t much good advice out there, so Devon Zuegel and I co-wrote this [list of tactics](https://devonzuegel.com/post/the-unconference-toolbox). > **We bought out a theater to watch Oppenheimer next month!** We’ll have 159 seats in total. Michael Nielsen is going to speak for 20 minutes before showtime to explain why the Manhattan Project is relevant to our current moment in AI. [You can join us here](https://lu.ma/ng823oih).