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80,000 Hours

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Why your career is your biggest opportunity to make a difference to the world

Aug 21, 2025•80,000 Hours and Benjamin Todd

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We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.

Intergalactic war is millions of years away. But we already know the outcome.

Jun 18•Rob Wiblin

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Ted Chiang is wildly overconfident about AI consciousness

Yes, these are hard questions, but we can’t dismiss the possibility that LLMs have subjective experience

Jun 10•Rob Wiblin

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High-impact roles hire differently. Here’s what you need to know.

How to thrive under pressure (or at least fail gracefully)

Jun 5•Aaron Gertler

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How three mid-career professionals found work in AI safety

Firsthand stories of successful AI safety career pivots from communications, consulting, and finance

Jun 1•Matt Beard

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We’ve Been Blown Away by the Support for Our Book Launch

Sharing our gratitude for the kind words from Cate Hall, Andy Masley, Bentham’s Bulldog, and many others

May 29•Matt Beard

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How to become a better applicant in one week

Most of our advice helps you play the long game: deciding what to work on, finding a fellowship, or building a network from scratch.

May 22•80,000 Hours and Aaron Gertler

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Landmark new METR report: Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies?

Rob Wiblin explores what happened when Anthropic hired a human expert to imagine they were 'evil Claude' and see what they could get away with inside…

May 20•80,000 Hours

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