Benjamin Todd

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4,140 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2023 last heard 28 May

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history · 26 May 2026 podcast

And in one or two more years, you can hopefully have even better opportunities and you can reassess at that point.

If you don't get any offers, which, and I'm not like, I don't want to downplay it.

Many of these jobs are very competitive.

There's a lot of applicants per place.

So if you don't, then instead you can think, well, okay, what can I do in the next one or two years to learn a useful skill?

for helping with these issues.

And there you could work in any field that will let you learn these skills.

You can work in a startup, you can work in government, you can work in a different cause.

There's lots of places that are great for learning these skills.

And then the third thing would just be, okay, I'm going to just contribute from within my existing role without changing job.

And there's also a lot of stuff that can be done there.

I notice a lot of people, they're like, okay, I think AI is the most pressing cause.

But when it comes to donating, they donate to Against Malaria Foundation.

I mean, I think even like our own host, Rob Wiblin, donated to the Shrimp Welfare Project.

Which is a very cool organization, but...

I do think like the returns to talent and funding can be different in different fields but like it needs to be to quite an extreme degree to think that it's like optimal to donate to like one cause but like work on a different one if you think any of these AI related issues are the most depressing issues you should you should also donate to them and people get this idea that like money can't really do anything within AI but that doesn't seem true to me um

And so like as one example, and I don't think this is like the best donation opportunity by a long route, but it's kind of an example of one would just be

So META, the organization that has done the most useful work in the world about tracking how close we are to AI R&D automation, which is the most important, like maybe one of the most important questions in the world.

I mean, their work is actually quite simple.

Like there's so many ways they could make their time horizon project better and get us better measurements about these crucial things.

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