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Benjamin Todd
A guide to the AI transition
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This feels like my life’s work, and it's out today
How the first week has gone
A 15-year search for the world's most pressing problem
Why moved from global health to AI and pandemics ten years ago, and what we're focused on today.
We reviewed over 60 studies about what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found.
We all want to find a dream job, but what does they actually mean? Decades of research has found five key factors, and it's not as simple as "following your passion".
Are the last 3 months the start of an AI acceleration?
Most public commentary is debating whether AI has hit a plateau.
Four reasons it's hard to make AI do what we want
Four reasons to expect misalignment
I'm publishing a book: a ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling career in the age of AI
I wrote 80,000 Hours ten years ago because I was frustrated at how terrible career advice can be.
Do we already have AGI?
What AGI means, and why we don’t have it yet.
How AI-driven feedback loops could make things very crazy, very fast
A primer on the intelligence explosion
The environment is a terrible reason to avoid ChatGPT
People are saying you shouldn’t use ChatGPT due to statistics like:
Reasoning, robots and how to prepare for AGI on the Future of Life Institute podcast
I recently joined Gus Docker on the Future of Life Institute Podcast. We debated many of the recent themes of this Substack:
AI is the most rapidly adopted technology in history
7 charts about AI deployment
How not to lose your job to AI
The skills AI will make more valuable (and how to learn them)
Should you quit your job – and work on risks from AI?
In five years, we could have AI systems capable of accelerating science and automating skilled jobs.
Shortening AGI timelines: a review of expert forecasts
As a non-expert, it would be great if there were experts who could tell us when we should expect artificial general intelligence (AGI) to arrive.
Will we have AGI by 2030?
In recent months, the CEOs of leading AI companies have grown increasingly confident about rapid progress:
How to make AI go well: a summary
I’m writing a new guide to careers to help AGI go well. Here's a summary of the key messages as they stand.
The most important graph in AI right now: time horizon
To understand how close we are to transformative AI, here’s the metric I find most interesting right now: how long are the tasks AI can do?
Teaching AI to reason: this year's most important story
Most people think of AI as a pattern-matching chatbot – good at writing emails, terrible at real thinking.
Gary Marcus says AI can't do things it can already do
The problem of criticising AI using outdated models