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Benjamin Hilton

Karma: 1,603

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_HoursDec 3, 2024, 7:27 PM
231 points
21 comments63 min readEA link

Nu­clear weapons – Prob­lem profile

Benjamin HiltonJul 19, 2024, 5:17 PM
53 points
7 comments31 min readEA link

Nu­clear weapons safety and se­cu­rity—Ca­reer review

Benjamin HiltonMay 16, 2024, 3:30 PM
51 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

80,000 Hours’ new se­ries on build­ing skills

Benjamin HiltonFeb 14, 2024, 12:19 PM
95 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

Benjamin HiltonSep 4, 2023, 4:17 PM
158 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

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

Benjamin HiltonJul 25, 2023, 4:28 PM
38 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

AI safety tech­ni­cal re­search—Ca­reer review

Benjamin HiltonJul 17, 2023, 3:34 PM
50 points
0 comments31 min readEA link

Give feed­back on the new 80,000 Hours ca­reer guide

Benjamin HiltonMay 23, 2023, 4:22 PM
65 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

Benjamin HiltonJan 17, 2023, 2:03 PM
117 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

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

Benjamin HiltonSep 12, 2022, 4:25 PM
57 points
7 comments9 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Prevent­ing an AI-re­lated catas­tro­phe—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin HiltonAug 29, 2022, 6:49 PM
137 points
18 comments4 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Risks from atom­i­cally pre­cise man­u­fac­tur­ing—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin HiltonAug 9, 2022, 1:41 PM
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_HoursJun 21, 2022, 10:49 PM
219 points
37 comments2 min readEA link

Cli­mate change − 80,000 Hours

Benjamin HiltonJun 6, 2022, 11:00 PM
21 points
6 comments31 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Data col­lec­tion for AI al­ign­ment—Ca­reer review

Benjamin HiltonJun 3, 2022, 11:44 AM
34 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Cli­mate change—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin HiltonMay 18, 2022, 5:20 PM
64 points
21 comments23 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Soft­ware en­g­ineer­ing—Ca­reer review

Benjamin HiltonFeb 8, 2022, 6:11 AM
93 points
19 comments8 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)