We offer career coaching and in-depth research on the careers that do the most to solve the world’s most pressing problems.| 80,000 Hours
80,000 Hours' aim is to help people find careers that tackle the world's most pressing problems. To do this, one thing we do is maintain a public list of what we see as the issues where additional people can have the greatest positive impact. We've just made significant updates to our list. Here are the biggest changes: We've broadened our coverage of particularly pressing issues downstream of the possibility that artificial general intelligence (AGI) might be here soon.| 80,000 Hours
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
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