2) Arrange your life such that you can easily identify volunteer opportunities for gruntwork, operations, or other nontechnical skills for AI safety orgs, and dedicate enough time and attention to helping with that gruntwork that you are more of an asset than a burden. (i.e. helping to run conferences and workshops). To help with AI specific things, it seems necessary to be in the Bay, Boston, Cambridge, Oxford or London.

I founded Real AI last December in Hong Kong. Its mission is to ensure that humanity has a bright future with safe and beneficial AGI. Besides the locations listed above, Hong Kong could use some help too.