80000_Hours

What would it take for AI to dis­em­power us? Ryan Green­blatt on take­off dy­nam­ics, rogue de­ploy­ments, and al­ign­ment risks

#219 – Graphs AI com­pa­nies would pre­fer you didn’t (fully) un­der­stand (Toby Ord on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#218 – Why Trump is aban­don­ing US hege­mony – and that’s prob­a­bly good (Hugh White on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#217 – The most im­por­tant graph in AI right now (Beth Barnes on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

• 80000_HoursMay 28, 2025, 2:40 PM

  3 points

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  on: 80,000 Hours spin out an­nounce­ment and fundraising

  Update: Our spin-out from Effective Ventures is now complete. We’ve established 80,000 Hours Limited and 80,000 Hours Foundation, each with their own board. See our recent blog post for details.

• 80000_HoursMay 28, 2025, 2:39 PM

  16 points

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  on: 80000_Hours’s Quick takes

  80,000 Hours has completed its spin-out and has new boards

  We’re pleased to announce that 80,000 Hours has officially completed its spin-out from Effective Ventures and is now operating as an independent organisation.

  We’ve established two entities with the following board members:

  80,000 Hours Limited (a nonprofit entity where our core operations live):

  • Konstantin Sietzy — Deputy Director of Talent and Operations at UK AISI

  • Alex Lawsen — Senior Program Associate at Open Philanthropy and former 80,000 Hours Advising Manager

  • Anna Weldon — COO at the Centre for Effective Altruism and former EV board member

  • Joshua Rosenberg — CEO of the Forecasting Research Institute

  • Emma Abele — Former CEO of METR

  80,000 Hours Foundation:

  • Susan Shi — General counsel at EV, soon to move to CEA

  • Katie Hearsum — COO at Longview Philanthropy

  • Anna Weldon — An overlapping member of both boards

  Within our mission of helping people use their careers to solve the world’s most pressing problems, we’ve recently sharpened our focus on careers that can help make AI go well. This organizational change won’t affect our core work or programs in any significant way, though we’re excited about the strategic guidance our new boards will provide and the greater operational flexibility we’ll have going forward as we address these crucial challenges.

  See our blog post announcing our completed spin-out here.

Emer­gency pod: Don’t be­lieve OpenAI’s “non­profit” spin (with Tyler Whit­mer)

Emer­gency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui)

#216 – Why gov­ern­ments in Bri­tain and el­se­where can’t get any­thing done – and how to fix it (Ian Dunt on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80,000 Hours is hiring for an En­gage­ment Specialist

The case for AGI by 2030

#214 – Con­trol­ling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it any­way (Buck Sh­legeris on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80,000 Hours is shift­ing its strate­gic ap­proach to fo­cus more on AGI

80,000 Hours is hiring a Pod­cast Host & Chief of Staff to help us build an AGI-fo­cused me­dia plat­form

#213 – AI caus­ing a “cen­tury in a decade” — and how we’re com­pletely un­pre­pared (Will MacAskill on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

Emer­gency pod: Judge plants a le­gal time bomb un­der OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)

#212 – Why tech­nol­ogy is un­stop­pable & how to shape AI de­vel­op­ment any­way (Allan Dafoe on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

Emer­gency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI’s party (with Rose Chan Loui)

#211 – Why hous­ing still isn’t fixed and what would ac­tu­ally work (Sam Bow­man on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

• 80000_HoursDec 4, 2024, 7:43 PM

  2 points

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  in reply to: Silvan’s comment on: Fac­tory farm­ing as a press­ing world problem

  Ah, thanks, that’s now fixed!