“80,000 Hours is shifting our strategic approach to focus more on AGI” by 80000_Hours, Niel_Bowerman

TL;DR

In a sentence:
We are shifting our strategic focus to put our proactive effort towards helping people work on safely navigating the transition to a world with AGI, while keeping our existing content up.

In more detail:

We think it's plausible that frontier AI companies will develop AGI by 2030. Given the significant risks involved, and the fairly limited amount of work that's been done to reduce these risks, 80,000 Hours is adopting a new strategic approach to focus our efforts in this area.

During 2025, we are prioritising:

1. Deepening our understanding as an organisation of how to improve the chances that the development of AI goes well
2. Communicating why and how people can contribute to reducing the risks
3. Connecting our users with impactful roles in this field
4. And fostering an internal culture which helps us to achieve these goals

We remain focused on impactful [...]

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Outline:

(01:44) Why we're updating our strategic direction

(04:02) How we hope to achieve it

(05:44) Community implications

(08:38) Potential questions you might have

(08:42) What does this mean for non-AI cause areas?

(10:44) How big a shift is this from 80k's status quo?

(11:58) Are EA values still important?

(13:36) What would cause us to change our approach?

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First published:
March 20th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4ZE3pfwDKqRRNRggL/80-000-hours-is-shifting-our-strategic-approach-to-focus

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