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    • Improving decision making
    Emerging challenges
    • The moral status of digital minds
    • Risks of stable totalitarianism
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    • Space governance
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    • Wild animal suffering
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    • Experience with an emerging power
    • Expertise relevant to a top problem
    See all our skills pages →
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    • AI governance and policy
    • AI safety technical research
    • Biorisk research, strategy, and policy
    • Information security in high-impact areas
    • Expert in AI hardware
    • China-related AI safety and governance
    • Grantmaker
    • Helping build the effective altruism community
    • Nuclear weapons safety and security
    • Operations in high-impact organisations
    • Research into global priorities
    More promising paths
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    • Software engineering
    • Journalism
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    How to build great career capital
    • See our top recommendations →
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    • Top problems list
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    • How to think about your contribution
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    • Differences in productivity
    • Comparative advantage
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    Read the full series →
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2024

October
  • Updates to our problem rankings of factory farming, climate change, and more
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August
  • Should you work at a frontier AI company? (Updated)
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July
  • Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (Updated)
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January
  • An apology for our mistake with the book giveaway
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2023

December
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June
  • Should you work at a frontier AI company? (First published)
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May
  • Advanced series: our most important and novel research on what makes for a high-impact career (First published)
    Article
  • How 80,000 Hours has changed some of our advice after the collapse of FTX
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  • Career planning and decision making — all our best resources (Updated)
    Article
March
  • 80,000 Hours two-year review: 2021 and 2022
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  • Improving decision making (especially in important institutions) (Updated)
    Problem profile

2022

December
  • How to choose where to donate (Updated)
    Article
August
  • Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (First published)
    Problem profile

2021

March
  • Advanced series: our most important and novel research on what makes for a high-impact career (Updated)
    Article
  • Your biggest opportunity to make a difference: our guide to what makes for a high-impact career
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2020

December
  • Career planning and decision making — all our best resources (First published)
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November
  • Career planning series: how to plan your high-impact career
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June
  • What 80,000 Hours learned by anonymously interviewing people we respect
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April
  • Policy and research ideas to reduce existential risk
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    Problem profile
  • Essential Facts and Figures – COVID-19
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2018

November
  • ML engineering for AI safety & robustness: a Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering the field
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March
  • Video: The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
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2017

September
  • Improving decision making (especially in important institutions) (First published)
    Problem profile
June
  • Guide to working in AI policy and strategy
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March
  • Some further resources on high-impact careers
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2016

November
  • How to choose where to donate (First published)
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August
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2015

July
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April
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2013

January
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