Zershaaneh Qureshi

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853 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Sep

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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

Like were there specific moments or was there any kind of like research or analysis that you did that made things just feel really visceral to you that kind of changed your mind in some way?

Yeah, were there any key moments or things that you learned that really convinced you that AI risks were the big thing for you to be working on?

So for people who are listening to this and maybe having a sort of similar wake-up experience where they're getting increasingly worried about AI risks and the chance that these things will play out quite soon, what should they do?

What's your recommendation for what they should do now?

Interesting.

How dare he?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I guess it's much quicker to make a donation than to get a job.

Yeah.

Okay.

So it seems like there are lots of ways that you can help even very, very soon.

So one thing is that you could actually like get directly working on AI risks fairly quickly by taking some of the courses and things that you mentioned.

But there are also sort of indirect ways that you can help very soon, including donating, trying to help build political will and doing some communications work.

So like a really wide range of options, some of which can be done very, very quickly, and some of which like might take you a few months or something like that.

does that sound right yes absolutely great we've talked a fair amount about what sort of jobs and areas people should be working on to have an impact on the world i think a big reservation some of our listeners might have about taking on impactful jobs that will help make things go well um

It might be sort of concerning what the future of employment actually looks like.

And I know that you researched this when you were writing the book.

So I'm curious to know what you make of predictions that AI is going to cause mass unemployment in the near term.

So, for example, Dario Amadei, the CEO of Anthropic,

has said that there's a chance there could be 10 to 20% unemployment in the next five years.

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