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Why we're updating our strategic direction Since 2016, we've ranked 'risks from artificial intelligence' as our top pressing problem. Whilst we've provided research and support on how to work on reducing AI risks since that point (and before!), we've put in varying amounts of investment over time and between programmes. We think we should consolidate our effort and focus because: We think that AGI by 2030 is plausible — and this is much sooner than most of us would have predicted five years...| 80,000 Hours
In recent months, the CEOs of leading AI companies have grown increasingly confident about rapid progress: OpenAI's Sam Altman: Shifted from saying in November "the rate of progress continues" to declaring in January "we are now confident we know how to build AGI" Anthropic's Dario Amodei: Stated in January "I'm more confident than I've ever been that we're close to powerful capabilities... in the next 2-3 years" Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis: Changed from "as soon as 10 years" in autumn t...| 80,000 Hours
The 20th century saw unprecedented change: nuclear weapons, satellites, the rise and fall of communism, third-wave feminism, the internet, postmodernism, game theory, genetic engineering, the Big Bang theory, quantum mechanics, birth control, and more. Now imagine all of it compressed into just 10 years.| 80,000 Hours
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A free guide based on five years of research alongside academics at Oxford University.| 80,000 Hours
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