If you're looking for an impactful career in #AI safety, here are some of the top resources. www.aisafety.com/map Your career in AI safety starts here! 👑💼 #AICareer #AISafety #CareerChange #Impact #80000Hours #PurposeDrivenCareers

Via @80000Hours
Things get weird in our new interview w/AI welfare researcher @fish_kyle3:
• AIs’ preference 4 writing poetry over other tasks
• AIs’ 🌀“spiritual bliss” when they talk 2 ea other
• Y these (& more) suggest a 20% chance current AIs r conscious

Full interview ⬇️

x.com/80000hours/s...

A good compilation of "insights from researchers, defense experts, philosophers, and policymakers on humanity’s ability to survive and recover from catastrophic events." Long but is worth it
#collapse #X-risks #80000Hours
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnC_...

Some jobs are just bad. If your salary depends on addiction, pollution, or surveillance, that is not a grey area. That is complicity.

#80000hours #EthicalCareers #JobsWithPurpose

Loved the book & just watched this excellent #80000hours interview with @iandunt.bsky.social - useful for anyone bemused by how shit Westminster can be...

Mild warning - very much a "feature length" interview (but with an excellent level of sweariness from Mr Dunt)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yfo...

If you want to switch, speak to @80000Hours one-on-one and they can help you with planning & introductions.

80000hours.org/speak-with-us/

And follow the links in the full post for more:
benjamintodd.substack.com/p/work-on-a...

#EA #effectivealtruism #AI #80000hours
Interview w Will MacAskill on the intelligence explosion, a 'century in a decade', and his new project. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

A great podcast to revisit given the recent shift away from ethical business policy by social media. Impacts of commercial algorithms (manipulations) on mental health, political extremism, social dynamics (from 80000 hours, 2020):
youtu.be/pEl5XBG1fPY?...
#canada #edupolicy #canada #80000hours

My YouTube is being bombarded by this thing called 80000Hours and its all AI slop shit

Can anyone recommend good career/work coaching services (that are not @80000Hours)? I'm happy to pay and have several sessions

These thoughts are inspired by the effective altruism movement (@EffectvAltruism @80000Hours) and many of the insights are from Michael Aird's (@Michael90875807) podcast episode on how to do impact-driven research, which I highly recommend listening to:...

This piece on effective altruism and US gun control from @robertwiblin on @80000Hours explains some of our reasons.

https://80000hours.org/2013/04/is-us-gun-control-an-important-issue/

Put on https://soundcloud.com/80000-hours/cass-sunstein-how-change-happens for a car full of housemates on a road trip. They were absolutely captivated. Strongly recommend, thanks @80000Hours

If I die while in the military, $400k is split between:
-@MIRIBerkeley
-@80000Hours
-@Give_Directly
-@FHIOxford

If all goes as planned, I will do a lot more good than this, but it feels good to have a minimum in place.

1) Updating my SGLI Insurance to include EA organizations like #GiveWell and #80000Hours.

@iSCHigherEd Re: entrepenuership -
Does starting a non-profit count? E.g., <a href="http://theLifeYouCanSave.com," class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://theLifeYouCanSave.com, 80000hours, <a href="http://givewell.org," class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://givewell.org, etc

Can you guess which social interventions work? A quiz based on evidenced social progs https://80000hours.org/articles/can-you-guess/ @C2update @80000Hours