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Why AI risks are the world’s most pressing problems | 80,000 Hours
Apr 27, 2026 - AGI could rapidly transform the world, posing existential risks to humanity. Here’s why working on AI risks could be the most important use of your career.
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https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/80-000-hours-yc-s15-helps-top-graduates-choose-careers-that-matter/
80,000 Hours (YC S15) Helps Top Graduates Choose Careers That Matter | Y Combinator
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https://80000hours.org/articles/your-choice-of-problem-is-crucial/
Why the problem you work on is the biggest driver of your impact | 80,000 Hours
Oct 13, 2025 - If you want to help others, should you follow your passion? Probably not. You'll do far more good if you focus on bigger and more problem areas.
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https://80000hours.org/skills/political-bureaucratic/
Policy and political skills | 80,000 Hours
Jan 26, 2026 - Working in policy can be a rewarding and high-impact way of changing the world for the better. Learn how to get started.
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80,000 Hours: How to make a difference with your career
Apr 13, 2026 - You have 80,000 hours in your career. How can you best use them to help solve the world’s most pressing problems?
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New releases | 80,000 Hours
Apr 26, 2021 - Research, interviews and case studies on social impact career choice.
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Speak with us | 80,000 Hours
Apr 20, 2026 - Get free 1:1 career advice from one of our advisors. We can help you choose your focus, make connections, and find a fulfilling job.
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https://80000hours.org/articles/comparative-advantage/
Should you play to your comparative advantage when choosing your career? | 80,000 Hours
Oct 15, 2025 - Doing a job where you have the comparative advantage seems like an obviously good idea, but that may not always be the case.
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Community: one of the most powerful ways to improve your career | 80,000 Hours
Nov 6, 2025 - Learn about joining a community can help you succeed and have a greater impact.
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Speak with us | 80,000 Hours
Apr 20, 2026 - Get free 1:1 career advice from one of our advisors. We can help you choose your focus, make connections, and find a fulfilling job.
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https://80000hours.org/articles/career-exploration/
Career exploration: when should you settle? | 80,000 Hours
Oct 3, 2025 - How much career exploration should you do? We draw on research from computer science, psychology and elsewhere to provide a practical answer.
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Contact us | 80,000 Hours
Oct 3, 2025 - Please send feedback and general queries to info@80000hours.org. To submit a job to our job board, please fill out this short form. If our team decides that...
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https://80000hours.org/articles/earning-to-give/
Why and how to earn to give | 80,000 Hours
Jan 27, 2026 - Some people have skills that are better suited to earning money than the other strategies. These people can take a higher earning career and donate the money...
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https://80000hours.org/topic/ai/
AI (Topic archive) | 80,000 Hours
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https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/tom-davidson-how-quickly-ai-could-transform-the-world/
Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world | 80,000 Hours
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Job board | 80,000 Hours
810 jobs - Find jobs working on helping AGI go well and other pressing global problems.
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Factory farming | 80,000 Hours
Apr 29, 2026 - Each year, 50 billion animals are raised and slaughtered in factory farms. Most experience extreme levels of suffering.
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The 80,000 Hours Podcast
Apr 28, 2026 - In-depth conversations about the world’s most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them.
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Career planning: An in-depth process & template - 80,000 Hours
Feb 24, 2026 - Research-based, practical advice on career planning, decision-making and getting jobs for people who want a fulfilling career with positive impact.
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Organisation-building | 80,000 Hours
Nov 24, 2025 - Find out how to help build and boost great organisations through skills like management, operations, legal and financial oversight, entrepreneurship and...
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https://80000hours.org/2014/10/interview-holden-karnofsky-on-the-importance-of-personal-fit/
Interview: Holden Karnofsky on the importance of personal fit | 80,000 Hours
Oct 26, 2025 - In January 2014, I interviewed Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder of GiveWell, to further discuss his views on the importance of personal fit in career choice,...
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https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/global-priorities-researcher/
Research into global priorities | Career review | 80,000 Hours
Nov 24, 2025 - You can help figure out which global problems are most pressing by working in global priorities research.
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https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/ai-policy-and-strategy/
AI governance and policy | Career review | 80,000 Hours
Apr 29, 2026 - Advanced AI systems could have massive impacts on humanity and potentially pose global catastrophic risks. There are opportunities...
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Our donors | 80,000 Hours
Nov 24, 2025 - We very much appreciate all the financial support that we receive from our donors. As of May 2024, we had received around £30.9 million in donations from...
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Speak with us | 80,000 Hours
Apr 20, 2026 - Get free 1:1 career advice from one of our advisors. We can help you choose your focus, make connections, and find a fulfilling job.
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How to become an engineer | 80,000 Hours
Nov 24, 2025 - Learn how to get started in an engineering career, and how you can use engineering skills to solve pressing global problems.
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https://80000hours.org/articles/be-more-ambitious/
Be more ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (if you want to do good) | 80,000 Hours
Nov 26, 2025 - Self-help often says you should be more ambitious. This isn't always good advice. But if you want to do good, here are 4 reasons it makes sense.
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Translations of our content | 80,000 Hours
Jan 5, 2026 - Some people liked our content so much that they kindly and voluntarily translated it into other languages so more people could read it! We update our core...
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https://80000hours.org/ai/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/
Will we have AGI by 2030? | 80,000 Hours
Apr 15, 2026 - Evidence-led look at why AGI might be feasible by 2030, the trends pushing capabilities forward, and where they could plateau.
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https://80000hours.org/topic/career-advice-strategy/how-to-get-a-job/
How to get a job (Topic archive) | 80,000 Hours
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https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/matt-clancy-whether-science-is-good/
Matt Clancy on whether science is good | 80,000 Hours
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https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/
The highest-impact career paths our research has identified so far | 80,000 Hours
May 4, 2026 - Our list of the most promising high-impact career paths for helping others.
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Our mistakes | 80,000 Hours
Nov 26, 2025 - We continuously strive to learn from our actions and improve our practices. The mistakes page represents a selection of lessons learned from our...
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https://80000hours.org/articles/future-generations/
Longtermism: a call to protect future generations - 80,000 Hours
Jan 8, 2026 - It would be better for the future if we avoid extinction, manage our resources carefully, foster institutions that promote cooperation rather than violent...
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https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/audrey-tang-what-we-can-learn-from-taiwan/
Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy | 80,000 Hours
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