We can be the generation that helps cause the end of everything, or navigates humanity through its most dangerous period.| 80,000 Hours
The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business.| MIT Technology Review
Effective altruists say we should care about people thousands of miles away—and even millions of years in the future| TIME
Her new organization, DAIR, will raise the alarm about how AI is being deployed today and use AI to speak truth to power.| IEEE Spectrum
Are we prepared for the next pandemic? Pandemics — and biological risks like bioterrorism or biological weapons — pose an existential threat to humanity.| 80,000 Hours
Which problems are the biggest, most tractable, and most neglected in the world - and what can you do about them?| 80,000 Hours
Some people have skills that are better suited to earning money than the other strategies. These people can take a higher earning career and donate the money to effective organisations.| 80,000 Hours
See a brief update Aug 2022. In 2015, I argued that funding for effective altruism -- especially within meta or longtermist areas -- had grown faster than the number of people interested in it, and that this was likely to continue. This meant that there was a funding overhang, leading to a series of skill bottlenecks. A couple of years ago, I wondered if this trend was starting to reverse.| 80,000 Hours
The course of the future is uncertain. But humanity’s choices now can shape how events unfold.| 80,000 Hours
Why do we think that reducing risks from AI is one of the most pressing issues of our time? There are technical safety issues that we believe could, in the worst case, lead to an existential threat to humanity.| 80,000 Hours
1. Arriving at the Repugnant Conclusion| plato.stanford.edu
William MacAskill’s movement set out to help the global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway A.I. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way?| The New Yorker
How big a deal could AI misalignment be? About as big as it gets.| Cold Takes
