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80,000 Hours

Summary

80,000 Hours is an effective altruism organization and podcast founded at Oxford, providing career advice aimed at maximizing positive impact, particularly focused on existential risks including AI safety.

Core Contribution

Built the most influential effective altruism career guidance platform; steered significant talent toward AI safety and other EA priorities.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • effective altruism
  • AI safety
  • career advice
  • impact

Historical Influences

Peter Singer Will MacAskill EA movement

Intellectual Lineage

Effective altruism Oxford Will MacAskill

Contemporaries & Peers

GiveWell Open Philanthropy EA organizations

Minds Influenced

EA career decisionsAI safety talent pipeline

Intellectual Posterity

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