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The highest-impact career paths 80,000 hours research has identified so far
- maxutility 5y agoTop Career (from the article): AI Safety Technical Research > “To mitigate the risks posed by the development of artificial intelligence, it’s imperative to research how to solve technical challenges and design problems to ensure that powerful AI systems do what we want — and are beneficial — without any catastrophic unintended consequences.”
- jleyank 5y agoPity we’re not really working on “true” AI at the moment. We merely have similarity engines that are being (mis)used by people who can be unaware or abusing the limitations of the model. If you mean there has to be people who have to prevent nasty people from being nasty, that’s not a new need. If you mean we better plan in place before ai really appears, that would be a win. These are buzzword-heavy categories. Better careers would be material scientists, medical researchers, …