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    Top areas to work on
    • Preventing an AI-related catastrophe
    • Catastrophic pandemics
    • Nuclear weapons
    • Great power war
    • Factory farming
    • Global priorities research
    • Building effective altruism
    • Improving decision making
    Emerging challenges
    • The moral status of digital minds
    • AI-enabled power grabs
    • S-risks
    • Space governance
    • Risks of stable totalitarianism
    • Gradual disempowerment
    • Civilisation resilience
    • Wild animal suffering
    Other pressing problems
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    • Climate change
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    Top skills to build early in your career
    • Policy and politics
    • Organisation-building
    • Research
    • Communicating ideas
    • Software and tech
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    • Experience with an emerging power
    • Expertise relevant to a top problem
    See all our skills pages →
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    Our list of top high-impact career paths
    • 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
    Other promising paths
    • Be a founder
    • Software engineering
    • Journalism
    • See more →
    How to build great career capital
    • See our top recommendations →
    See all career reviews →
    Read the full series →
    Introduction
    • Your most important decision
    Foundations
    • A definition of impact
    • Longtermism
    • Harmful jobs
    Global priorities
    • Problem selection
    • Existential risks
    • Top problems list
    Contribution
    • How to think about your contribution
    • Effective solutions
    • List of high-impact careers
    Personal fit
    • Gut instinct
    • Differences in productivity
    • Comparative advantage
    Strategy
    • Ambition
    • Coordination
    • Exploration
    • Impact and satisfaction
    • Accidental harm
    Read the full series →
    Career planning and decision making
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    • All our other planning resources
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    • Christian Ruhl on why we’re entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks
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    • Clay Graubard and Robert de Neufville on forecasting the war in Ukraine
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