80,000 Hours methodology
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80,000 Hours is a leading effective altruism organization that directs talent toward AI safety and existential risk reduction, making it a key field-building resource for the AI safety community.
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Summary
80,000 Hours is a nonprofit providing free career guidance, research, and 1-on-1 advising to help people maximize their positive impact on the world's most pressing problems. They prioritize AI safety, existential risk, and other neglected global challenges. Their methodology focuses on problem scale, tractability, and neglectedness to identify high-impact career paths.
Key Points
- •Ranks power-seeking AI systems as the most pressing global problem, ahead of pandemics, great power conflict, and other risks.
- •Offers free career guides, job boards, and 1-on-1 advising based on 10+ years of research and thousands of career consultations.
- •Uses a framework of scale, tractability, and neglectedness to prioritize cause areas and career paths.
- •Releasing a new career guide with Penguin Random House updated for the age of AI, covering automation risks and high-impact careers.
- •Serves as a major talent pipeline into AI safety and effective altruism organizations globally.
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| Novel / Unknown Approaches | Capability | 53.0 |
| AI Risk Portfolio Analysis | Analysis | 64.0 |
| Capabilities-to-Safety Pipeline Model | Analysis | 73.0 |
| AI Safety Research Allocation Model | Analysis | 65.0 |
| AI Safety Researcher Gap Model | Analysis | 67.0 |
| Worldview-Intervention Mapping | Analysis | 62.0 |
| 80,000 Hours | Organization | 45.0 |
| Metaculus | Organization | 50.0 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) | Organization | 59.0 |
| Dario Amodei | Person | 41.0 |
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We’ll help you find a role that shapes the future
We’ll help you find a role that shapes the future
We help people find fulfilling careers that make a big positive impact. Our career guide, 1-1 advising, and other resources can help you:
Decide what problems to focus on
Find and compare jobs that tackle those problems
Enter your new role
Our resources are based on over 10 years of research, plus advising thousands of people 1-1 on their careers. We’re a nonprofit, and you can access all our advice for free.
Get started Our new career guide
This May, we’re releasing a new edition of our career guide with Penguin Random House, revised and updated for the age of AI.
It covers why “follow your passion” gets things backwards, why many “safe” careers are among those most exposed to automation, and why the world’s most pressing problems are the ones almost nobody is working on.
It’s also full of practical tips and tools. You’ll come away with a plan to use your 80,000 hours in a way that’s rewarding and fulfils your potential to make a difference.
Preorder the new book Every college grad should read this.
— Tim Urban creator of Wait But Why
If you're worried about wasting your life, read this book.
— Rutger Bregman author of Humankind
If this had been published a decade earlier, it'd have saved me many restless nights.
— Hannah Ritchie author of Not the End of the World
Every college grad should read this.
— Tim Urban creator of Wait But Why
Every college grad should read this.
— Tim Urban creator of Wait But Why
If this had been published a decade earlier, it'd have saved me many restless nights.
— Hannah Ritchie author of Not the End of the World
Our new career guide
This May, we’re releasing a new edition of our career guide with Penguin Random House, revised and updated for the age of AI.
It covers why “follow your passion” gets things backwards, why many “safe” careers are among those most exposed to automation, and why the world’s most pressing problems are the ones almost nobody is working on.
It’s also full of practical tips and tools. You’ll come away with a plan to use your 80,000 hours in a way that’s rewarding and fulfils your potential to make a difference.
Preorder the new book What are the world’s most pressing problems?
The problem you work on is probably the largest factor in how big a difference you can make.
It helps to focus on issues that are large in scale, tractable, and unduly neglected by the rest of society.
Some of these issues may even threaten humanity’s future — making them especially high priority.
Here’s our (uncertain!) ranking of global problems where additional people can have the most impact:
What are the world’s most pressing problems?
The problem you work on is probably the largest factor in how big
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