Coalition Resources
Your Guide to Planning an Event
This event-planning toolkit from the Alliance for Secure AI helps community organizers host conversations about AI’s effects on jobs, families, schools, and public safety. It outlines host responsibilities and Alliance support, with practical guidance on venue selection, promotion, registration, volunteer coordination, and technical preparation. Checklists, sample social media posts, and discussion questions help hosts engage attendees and encourage continued advocacy
Attending Public Meetings
This civic-engagement guide from the Alliance for Secure AI Action helps community members participate in local public meetings where AI-related decisions are made. It identifies issues before school boards, city councils, county commissions, and utility boards, and offers practical tips for reviewing agendas, preparing public comments, attending as a group, and following up with officials.
How to Speak to Public Officials
This advocacy guide from the Alliance for Secure AI Action helps constituents communicate with public officials about AI safety. It covers individual and small-group meetings, committee testimony, and organized days of action, emphasizing personal stories, specific policy requests, respectful communication, and timely follow-up to build lasting relationships with lawmakers and their staff.
Capturing Photos At Events
This event-photography guide from the Alliance for Secure AI helps organizers document community gatherings for outreach, media coverage, and advocacy. It covers preparation, attendee consent and opt-outs, essential shots, basic photography techniques, and short video capture, along with instructions for organizing and sharing images after an event.
Event RELEASE FORM
This event release form from the Alliance for Secure AI notifies attendees that photography, audio, and video recording may occur. It states that entering the event constitutes consent to recording and ongoing use of attendees’ images, voices, and names in Alliance communications, along with a waiver of related claims and compensation. Those who do not agree are instructed not to enter.
Share Your Story
This storytelling guide from the Alliance for Secure AI helps advocates share why AI safety matters to them through a short personal video and accompanying portrait. It provides practical tips for shaping a clear message, recording a 45–60-second video, improving lighting and sound, and submitting high-quality files to support public outreach and advocacy.