In the News

This page contains selected news coverage about our work and that of our grantees.

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Year
  • Title
  • Date
  • Focus Area

May 12, 2023

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us

Date
May 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI

July 12, 2021

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways

Date
July 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing

October 05, 2021

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications

Date
October 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks

August 26, 2021

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass

Date
August 2021
Focus Area

August 01, 2023

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk

Date
August 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI

August 19, 2021

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on the most important century

Date
August 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks

May 19, 2023

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

Date
May 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks

April 18, 2024

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals

Date
April 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare

November 01, 2023

Title

80,000 Hours Podcast: Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down

Date
November 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy