Those who wish to volunteer some of their time toward reducing existential risk and increasing our chances of a positive singularity can follow the directions on SingularityVolunteers.org.
And as a freshly hired Singularity Institute researcher, I also have my own list of tasks that, if completed by volunteers instead of myself, will speed along the delivery of the projects I'm working on: an 'FAI Open Problems' document, two papers bound for peer review, metaethics research, and more.
So if you'd like to help me out with any of my volunteer-doable tasks, please contact me: luke [at] singinst [dot] org.
Thanks!
I think if you posted your personal list of tasks here instead of asking people to e-mail you first, you would have an easier time getting people to help. People might think "oh, I don't want to embarass myself / waste lukeprog's time by e-mailing him if there's a chance I wouldn't get around doing those things". Yet if they knew what your tasks were, they might find that they could quite easily do some of them.
My thought is that requiring potential volunteers to email me will filter out those least likely to actually do something. Also, I want to be able to coordinate who is working on what so that uselessly duplicate work isn't being done.