80,000 Hours Podcast20 Okt 2021

We just put up a new compilation of ten core episodes of the show

We recently launched a new podcast feed that might be useful to you and people you know.

It's called Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems, and it's a collection of ten top episodes of this show, selected to help listeners quickly get up to speed on ten pressing problems that the effective altruism community is working to solve.

It's a companion to our other compilation Effective Altruism: An Introduction, which explores the big picture debates within the community and how to set priorities in order to have the greatest impact.

These ten episodes cover:

The cheapest ways to improve education in the developing world
How dangerous is climate change and what are the most effective ways to reduce it?
Using new technologies to prevent another disastrous pandemic
Ways to simultaneously reduce both police misconduct and crime
All the major approaches being taken to end factory farming
How advances in artificial intelligence could go very right or very wrong
Other big threats to the future of humanity — such as a nuclear war — and how can we make our species wiser and more resilient
One problem few even recognise as a problem at all

The selection is ideal for people who are completely new to the effective altruist way of thinking, as well as those who are familiar with effective altruism but new to The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

If someone in your life wants to get an understanding of what 80,000 Hours or effective altruism are all about, and prefers to listen to things rather than read, this is a great resource to direct them to.

You can find it by searching for effective altruism in whatever podcasting app you use, or by going to 80000hours.org/ten.

We'd love to hear how you go listening to it yourself, or sharing it with others in your life. Get in touch by emailing podcast@80000hours.org.

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How a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws | Sneha Revanur, Encode AI

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Intergalactic war is probably billions of years away — yet physics can already tell us how it ends. And strangely that conclusion is relevant to decisions people have to make today.In this video, Rob ...

18 Jun 15min

How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

Imagine you’re living 15,000 years ago. Your people are hunter-gatherers and you sleep under the stars. If someone told you humans would one day build cities with millions of people, fly through the a...

11 Jun 1h 29min

#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers')

Most people working on AI safety think without a massive effort AI systems will probably end up with goals catastrophically different from humanity’s. Today’s guest, Rohin Shah — head of AGI Safety an...

2 Jun 2h 48min

What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd

What actually makes a job fulfilling? It's not what most career advice tells you. "Follow your passion" sounds inspiring, but it's misleading — and the research backs that up.Drawing on hundreds of st...

28 Mai 28min

#244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history

The average career is 80,000 hours long. With AI advancing so rapidly, the hours you have left in your career matter more than ever.Some leading AI researchers think there’s a 10% chance that AI syste...

26 Mai 1h 6min

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

A red-teamer was embedded inside Anthropic for three weeks, told to imagine he was an evil Claude, and asked to figure out how to launch a ‘rogue AI deployment’ without getting caught. It’s one part o...

20 Mai 20min

#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI

The co-inventor of modern AI and the most cited living scientist believes he's figured out how to ensure AI is honest, incapable of deception, and never goes rogue. Yoshua Bengio – Turing Award Winner...

7 Mai 2h 35min