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2020

October

#86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us
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August

#85 – Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy
Podcast
How to use your career to help reduce existential risk
Article
Global issues beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities
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June

#80 – Professor Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it
Podcast

March

Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
Problem profile
#72 – Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures
Podcast

2019

March

#54 – Askell, Brundage & Clark from OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms
Podcast

2018

November

#47 – Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles
Podcast

October

#46 – Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions
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#45 – Prof Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments to maximising economic growth, making civilization more stable & respecting human rights
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#44 – Dr Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment problem', and his vision of how humanity will progressively hand over decision-making to AI systems
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September

American with a science PhD? Get a fast-track into AI and STEM policy by applying for the acclaimed AAAS Science & Technology Fellowship by Nov 1.
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August

#40 – Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions.
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July

#38 – Prof Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating EA decades ago & how to make a much happier world
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March

#23 – How to actually become an AI alignment researcher, according to Dr Jan Leike
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Blog: A new recommended career path for effective altruists: China specialist
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2017

October

The case for reducing extinction risk
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If you want to do good, here’s why future generations should be your focus
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Introducing longtermism
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September

#6 – Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it
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2016

May

New report: Is climate change the biggest problem in the world?
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2015

April

The four big challenges
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Get paid to do existential risk reduction research
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2013

November

Case study: Working in the financial sector to promote a flourishing long-term future
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October

Influencing the Far Future
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August

How Important are Future Generations?
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