I would not describe the job board as currently advertising all cause areas equally, but yes, the bar for jobs not related to AI safety will be higher now. As I mention in my other comment, the job board is interpreting this changed strategic focus broadly to include biosecurity, nuclear security, and even meta-EA work—we think all of these have important roles to play in a world with a short timeline to AGI.
In terms of where we’ll be raising the bar, this will mostly affect global health, animal welfare, and climate postings — specifically in terms of the effort we put into finding roles in these areas. With global health and animal welfare, we’re lucky to have great evaluators like GiveWell and great programs like Charity Entrepreneurship to help us find promising orgs and teams. It’s easy for us to share these roles, and I remain excited to do so. However, part of our work involves sourcing for new roles and evaluating borderline roles. Much of this time will shift into more AIS-focused work.
Cause-neutral job board: It’s possible! I think that our change makes space for other boards to expand. I also think that this creates something of a trifecta, to put it very roughly: The 80k job board with our existential risk focus, Probably Good with a more global health focus, and Animal Advocacy Careers with an animal welfare focus. It’s possible that effort put into a cause-neutral board could be better put elsewhere, given that there’s already coverage split between these three.
The trifecta might work if enough people are also aware of the other job boards (maybe worth linking somewhere in your job board?). It might also be relatively easy to scrape jobs from all three boards to combine them in one cause-neutral job board, but that seems only worth it if enough people actually check that job board, e.g. if it was linked on effectivealtruism.org or maybe School for Moral Ambition or other high traffic websites etc.
I won’t look into this further but if anyone else here reading this wants to take this on, I’m happy to support if I can, just email me.
Hey Manuel,
I would not describe the job board as currently advertising all cause areas equally, but yes, the bar for jobs not related to AI safety will be higher now. As I mention in my other comment, the job board is interpreting this changed strategic focus broadly to include biosecurity, nuclear security, and even meta-EA work—we think all of these have important roles to play in a world with a short timeline to AGI.
In terms of where we’ll be raising the bar, this will mostly affect global health, animal welfare, and climate postings — specifically in terms of the effort we put into finding roles in these areas. With global health and animal welfare, we’re lucky to have great evaluators like GiveWell and great programs like Charity Entrepreneurship to help us find promising orgs and teams. It’s easy for us to share these roles, and I remain excited to do so. However, part of our work involves sourcing for new roles and evaluating borderline roles. Much of this time will shift into more AIS-focused work.
Cause-neutral job board: It’s possible! I think that our change makes space for other boards to expand. I also think that this creates something of a trifecta, to put it very roughly: The 80k job board with our existential risk focus, Probably Good with a more global health focus, and Animal Advocacy Careers with an animal welfare focus. It’s possible that effort put into a cause-neutral board could be better put elsewhere, given that there’s already coverage split between these three.
Thanks for the amount of detail and suggestions!
The trifecta might work if enough people are also aware of the other job boards (maybe worth linking somewhere in your job board?). It might also be relatively easy to scrape jobs from all three boards to combine them in one cause-neutral job board, but that seems only worth it if enough people actually check that job board, e.g. if it was linked on effectivealtruism.org or maybe School for Moral Ambition or other high traffic websites etc.
I won’t look into this further but if anyone else here reading this wants to take this on, I’m happy to support if I can, just email me.