n = 1 anecdotal point: during tabling early this semester, a passerby mentioned that they knew about 80K because a professor had prescribed one of the readings from the career guide in their course. The professor in question and the class they were teaching had no connection with EA, AI Safety, or our local EA group.
If non-EAs also find 80K’s career guide useful, that is a strong signal that it is well-written, practical, and not biased to any particular cause
I expect and hope that this remains unchanged, because we prescribe most of the career readings from that guide in our introductory program
Existing write-ups on non-AI problem profiles will also remain unchanged
There will be a separate AGI career guide
But the job board will be more AI focused
Overall, this tells me that groups should still feel comfortable sharing readings from the career guide and on other problem profiles, but selectively recommend the job board primarily to those interested in “making AI go well” or mid/senior non-AI people. Probably Good has compiled a list of impact-focused job boards here, so this resource could be highlighted more often.
From the update, it seems that:
80K’s career guide will remain unchanged
I especially feel good about this, because the guide does a really good job of emphasizing the many approaches of pursuing an impactful career
n = 1 anecdotal point: during tabling early this semester, a passerby mentioned that they knew about 80K because a professor had prescribed one of the readings from the career guide in their course. The professor in question and the class they were teaching had no connection with EA, AI Safety, or our local EA group.
If non-EAs also find 80K’s career guide useful, that is a strong signal that it is well-written, practical, and not biased to any particular cause
I expect and hope that this remains unchanged, because we prescribe most of the career readings from that guide in our introductory program
Existing write-ups on non-AI problem profiles will also remain unchanged
There will be a separate AGI career guide
But the job board will be more AI focused
Overall, this tells me that groups should still feel comfortable sharing readings from the career guide and on other problem profiles, but selectively recommend the job board primarily to those interested in “making AI go well” or mid/senior non-AI people. Probably Good has compiled a list of impact-focused job boards here, so this resource could be highlighted more often.
That’s interesting and would be nice if it was the case. That wasn’t the vibe I got from the announcement but we will see.