Throughout history, technological revolutions have fundamentally shifted the balance of power in society. The Industrial Revolution created conditions where democracies could dominate for the first time — as nations needed educated, informed, and empowered citizens to deploy advanced technologies and remain competitive.| 80,000 Hours
Career aptitude tests and gap years don't work. We tell you what does.| 80,000 Hours
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AI safety research — research on ways to prevent unwanted behaviour from AI systems — generally involves working as a scientist or engineer at major AI labs, in academia, or in independent nonprofits.| 80,000 Hours
Our approach to analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models| Google DeepMind
The three biggest AI companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind — have now all released policies designed to make their AI models less likely to go rogue or cause catastrophic damage as they approach, and eventually exceed, human capabilities. Are they good enough?| 80,000 Hours
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.| www.anthropic.com
This is the second part of our marathon interview with Carl Shulman. The first episode is on the economy and national security after AGI. You can listen to them in either order!| 80,000 Hours
Our list of the most promising high-impact career paths for helping others.| 80,000 Hours
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Advanced AI systems could have massive impacts on humanity and potentially pose global catastrophic risks. There are opportunities...| 80,000 Hours
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The US Government is likely to be a key actor in how advanced AI is developed & used in society.| 80,000 Hours
OpenAI says its mission is to build AGI — an AI system that is better than human beings at everything. Should the world trust them to do this safely?| 80,000 Hours
Place to find CSET's publications, reports, and people| Center for Security and Emerging Technology
We look at how to analyse these situations using moral philosophy, and then apply the results to some common options, like finance, law and the oil industry.| 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
On July 26, 2024, NIST released NIST-AI-600-1, Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile. The profile can help organizations identify unique risks posed by generative AI and proposes actions for generative AI risk management that best aligns with their goals and priorities. | NIST
We believe that capable enough AI systems could pose very large risks to the world. We do not think today’s systems are capable enough to pose these sorts of risks, but we think that this situation could change quickly and it’s important to be monitoring the risks consistently. Because of this, ARC is partnering with leading AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI as a third-party evaluator to assess potentially dangerous capabilities of today’s state-of-the-art ML models. The dangerous ca...| evals.alignment.org
About two years ago, I wrote that “it’s difficult to know which ‘intermediate goals’ [e.g. policy goals] we could pursue that, if achieved, would clearly increase the odds of eventual good outcomes from transformative AI.” Much has changed since then, and in this post I give an update on 12 ideas for US policy goals[1]Many […]| Open Philanthropy
People are far better at their jobs than at anything else. Here are the best ways to help the most important century go well.| Cold Takes
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
Organisations with influence, financial power, and advanced technology are targeted by actors seeking to steal or abuse these assets. A career in information security is a promising avenue to support high-impact organisations by protecting against these attacks, which have the potential to disrupt an organisation's mission or even increase existential risk.| 80,000 Hours