The Team page can answer much of this question. Is there any staff member in particular for whom the connection between their duties and our mission is unclear?

Louie Helm is Singularity Institute's Director of Development. He manages donor relations, grant writing, and talent recruitment.

Here are some of the actions that I would take as a director of development:

• Talk to Peter Thiel and ask him why he donated more money to the Seasteading Institute than the SIAI.
• Sit down with other SIAI members and ask what talents we need so I can actually get in touch with them.
• Visit various conferences and ask experts how they would use their expertise if they were told to ensure the safety of artificial general intelligence.

Michael Anissimov is responsible for compiling, distributing, and promoting SIAI media materials.

What I would do:

• Ask actual media experts what they would do, like those who created the creationist viral video Expelled or the trailer for the book You Are Not So Smart.
• Talk to Kurzweil if he would be willing to concentrate more strongly on the negative effects of a possible Singularity and promote the Singularity Institute.
• I would ask Peter Thiel and Jaan Tallinn if they could actually use their influence or companies to promote the Singularity Institute.
• Talk with other members about the importance of public relations and teach them how to deal with the media.

Anna Salamon is a full-time SIAI researcher.

What is she researching right now? With due respect, but the Uncertain Future web project doesn't look like something that a researcher, who is capable of making progress on the FAI problem, could work 3 years on.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is the foremost researcher on Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement.

He's still writing his book on rationality? How is it going? Is he planning a book tour? Does he already know who he is going to send the book for free, e.g. Richards Dawkins or other people who could promote it on their blog?

Edwin Evans is the Chairman of the Singularity Institute Board of Directors

No clue what he is, or could be doing right now.

Ray Kurzweil

It looks like he's doing nothing except being part of the team page.

Amy Willey, J.D., is the Singularity Institute's Chief Operating Officer, and is responsible for institute operations and legal matters.

What I would do:

• Try to figure out and make a detailed plan on how to stop possible dangerous AGI projects by all legal means (there are various researchers who believe that superintelligence could happen before 2030).
• Devise a plan on how to deal with legal challenges arising from possible terrorist attacks done by people who loosely associated themselves with the mission of the SIAI, without its knowledge. For example how to deal with a house search.

Michael Vassar is SIAI's President, and provides overall leadership of the SIAI

As a president, one of the first actions I would take is to talk with everyone about the importance of data security. I would further make sure that there are encrypted backups, of my organisations work, on different continents and under different jurisdictions to make sure that various kinds of catastrophes, including a obligation to disclosure by a government, can be mitigated or avoided.