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Benjamin Hilton

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Benjamin was a research analyst at 80,000 Hours. Before joining 80,000 Hours, he worked for the UK Government and did some economics and physics research.

Fac­tory farm­ing as a press­ing world problem

80000_Hours3 Dec 2024 19:27 UTC
226 points
17 comments63 min readEA link

Nu­clear weapons – Prob­lem profile

Benjamin Hilton19 Jul 2024 17:17 UTC
53 points
8 comments31 min readEA link

Nu­clear weapons safety and se­cu­rity—Ca­reer review

Benjamin Hilton16 May 2024 15:30 UTC
51 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

80,000 Hours’ new se­ries on build­ing skills

Benjamin Hilton14 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC
95 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the new 80,000 Hours Ca­reer Guide, by Ben­jamin Todd

Benjamin Hilton4 Sep 2023 16:17 UTC
158 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Should you work at a lead­ing AI lab? (in­clud­ing in non-safety roles)

Benjamin Hilton25 Jul 2023 16:28 UTC
38 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

AI safety tech­ni­cal re­search—Ca­reer review

Benjamin Hilton17 Jul 2023 15:34 UTC
49 points
0 comments31 min readEA link

Give feed­back on the new 80,000 Hours ca­reer guide

Benjamin Hilton23 May 2023 16:22 UTC
65 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How many peo­ple are work­ing (di­rectly) on re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI?

Benjamin Hilton17 Jan 2023 14:03 UTC
117 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

What could an AI-caused ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe ac­tu­ally look like?

Benjamin Hilton12 Sep 2022 16:25 UTC
57 points
7 comments9 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Prevent­ing an AI-re­lated catas­tro­phe—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin Hilton29 Aug 2022 18:49 UTC
138 points
18 comments4 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Risks from atom­i­cally pre­cise man­u­fac­tur­ing—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin Hilton9 Aug 2022 13:41 UTC
53 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Fill out this cen­sus of ev­ery­one who could ever see them­selves do­ing longter­mist work — it’ll only take a few mins

80000_Hours21 Jun 2022 22:49 UTC
219 points
37 comments2 min readEA link

Cli­mate change − 80,000 Hours

Benjamin Hilton6 Jun 2022 23:00 UTC
21 points
6 comments31 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Data col­lec­tion for AI al­ign­ment—Ca­reer review

Benjamin Hilton3 Jun 2022 11:44 UTC
34 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Cli­mate change—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin Hilton18 May 2022 17:20 UTC
64 points
21 comments23 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Soft­ware en­g­ineer­ing—Ca­reer review

Benjamin Hilton8 Feb 2022 6:11 UTC
93 points
19 comments8 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)