All our research
We’ve been researching how to increase the impact of your career since 2011. Here’s a list of everything we’ve published.
- Foundations (323)
- Effective Altruism (127)
- Existential risk (93)
- Future generations & longtermism (80)
- Moral philosophy (74)
- Moral patients (11)
- Moral uncertainty (10)
- Reasoning well (124)
- Decision making (42)
- Epistemics (6)
- Forecasting (8)
- World problems (373)
- Most pressing problems (269)
- Other pressing problems (163)
- Artificial sentience (9)
- Atomically precise manufacturing (3)
- Charter cities (3)
- Civilisational resilience (9)
- Economic growth (12)
- Ending Ageing (5)
- Factory Farming (23)
- False ideas on social media (10)
- Global Health (28)
- Global public goods (11)
- Great power conflict (21)
- Gun Control (3)
- Harmful restrictions on migration (5)
- Improving values (4)
- Individual reasoning & cognition (21)
- Mental health (problem area) (5)
- Risks from malevolent actors (13)
- Risks of stable totalitarianism (11)
- S-risks (4)
- Science policy & infrastructure (22)
- Space governance (4)
- Voting reform (7)
- Whole brain emulation (5)
- Wild animal suffering (10)
- Problem prioritisation (25)
- Careers (525)
- Careers to build career capital (30)
- Categories of impactful careers (259)
- Other careers (171)
- Art & Entertainment (6)
- Biomedical Research (15)
- Computer Science PhD (15)
- Consulting (10)
- Data science (28)
- Design (2)
- Education (6)
- Finance (19)
- Lawyer (9)
- Marketing (3)
- Medicine (28)
- Doctor (13)
- Medical Researcher (7)
- Nursing (1)
- Philosophy academia (10)
- Politics (52)
- Civil Service (10)
- Party Politics (20)
- Web designer (1)
- Sometimes-recommended careers (241)
- Academic Research (106)
- China-Western coordination (10)
- Data collection for AI alignment (1)
- Earning to give in quant trading (6)
- Effective climate change interventions (10)
- Engineering (9)
- Expert in AI hardware (8)
- Found a tech startup (30)
- High impact executive assistant (3)
- Historian of large societal trends (7)
- Information security (12)
- Investigate new problems (5)
- Journalism (26)
- Journalist (11)
- Longtermist philanthropy (2)
- Non-technical roles in leading AI labs (7)
- Organise an effective altruism group (1)
- Policy careers (11)
- Public intellectual (14)
- Research management (7)
- Software Engineering (32)
- Specialist in emerging global powers (6)
- Think tank research (3)
- Top-recommended careers (228)
- AI safety technical research (45)
- Biorisk strategy & policy (35)
- Building the effective altruism community (19)
- China-related AI safety & governance (10)
- Forecasting research & implementation (24)
- Founder of new projects (43)
- Grantmaker (22)
- Long-term AI policy (47)
- Operations at high impact organisations (12)
- Research into global priorities (43)
- Skills (8)
- Career advice & strategy (317)
- Accidental harm (19)
- Advice for undergraduates (15)
- Being ambitious (17)
- Career capital (55)
- Career planning (26)
- Community & coordination (10)
- Exploration (19)
- Graduate school (22)
- PhDs (13)
- How to get a job (24)
- Leverage (7)
- Mental health (24)
- Now vs. Later (16)
- Personal fit (75)
- Ability (19)
- Job satisfaction (28)
- Risk (13)
- Unconventional advice (109)
- Fields (136)
- Computer science (24)
- Economics (43)
- History (11)
- Law (9)
- Machine learning (27)
- Philosophy (23)
- Physics (4)
- Psychology (17)
- Statistics (7)
- Other topics (206)
- About 80,000 Hours (67)
- Updates (43)
- Anonymous advice (19)
- COVID-19 (23)
- Doing good in your current job (95)
- Advocacy (32)
- Donating effectively (27)
- Income (30)
- Volunteering (8)
- Promoting effective altruism (2)
- User stories (3)
- About 80,000 Hours (67)
2024
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- PodcastBlog postFactory farming (First published)Problem profilePodcastBlog postBlog postBlog postPodcastPodcastPreventing an AI-related catastrophe (Updated)Problem profileJune
- PodcastBlog postRisks of stable totalitarianism (First published)Problem profileProblem profileBlog postMay
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2023
December- Blog postBlog postPodcastArticleBlog postSkillPodcastPodcastPodcast (80k After Hours)SkillResearch skills (Updated)SkillPolicy and political skills (Updated)SkillSoftware and tech skills (Updated)SkillSkillOrganisation-building (Updated)SkillCommunicating ideas (Updated)SkillPreventing catastrophic pandemics (Updated)Problem profileDonate to 80,000 Hours (Updated)ArticleNovember
- PodcastPodcastBlog postPodcastBlog postOctober
- Experience with an emerging power (especially China) (First published)SkillPodcastPodcastPodcastPodcastPodcastBlog postSeptember
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