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    Top areas to work on
    • Preventing an AI-related catastrophe
    • Catastrophic pandemics
    • Nuclear war
    • Great power conflict
    • Climate change
    Capacity building
    • Building effective altruism
    • Global priorities research
    • Improving decision making
    Other promising areas
    • Civilisation resilience
    • Artificial sentience
    • Promoting positive values
    • Space governance
    • Risks of stable totalitarianism
    • Factory farming
    • Easily preventable or treatable illness
    • Wild animal suffering
    See all problem profiles →
    See all our career reviews →
    Top skill sets for tackling global problems
    • Political and bureaucratic skills
    • Organisation-building
    • Research
    • Communicating ideas
    • Programming
    • Experience with China
    • Specialist knowledge relevant to a top problem
    Our list of top high-impact career paths
    • AI safety technical research and engineering
    • AI governance and coordination
    • Biorisk research, strategy, and policy
    • Information security in high-impact areas
    • Expert in AI hardware
    • Helping build the effective altruism community
    • China-related AI safety and governance
    • Grantmaker
    • Operations in high-impact organisations
    • Research into global priorities
    • Forecasting research and implementation
    More promising paths
    • Be a founder
    • Software engineering
    • Journalism
    • See more →
    How to build great career capital
    • See our top recommendations →
    See all career reviews →
    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 →
    In-depth career planning series
    • How to figure out what matters to you
    • Which problems do you think are most pressing?
    • How to generate longer-term paths
    • Clarifying your strategic focus
    • How to figure out your next step
    • Planning to adapt
    • How to investigate your uncertainties
    • Putting your plan into action
    • Summary of planning series
    See the full series →
    Other career planning tools
    • Career guide planning template
    • Annual career check-up
    Make good career decisions
    • Make an immediate decision
    • Improve your decision-making skills
    Selected topics
    • Moral philosophy
    • Career capital
    • Job satisfaction
    • Anonymous advice
    • Unconventional advice
    • Advocacy
    • Existential risk
    • Top-recommended careers
    See all topics →
    Top articles from outside our guides
    • Best charities to donate to
    • Misconceptions about effective altruism
    • High-impact research questions
    • What are your chances of getting elected to Congress, if you try?
    • How many lives does a doctor save?
    • What's the impact of voting?
    • Advice for undergraduates
    All articles →
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