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We've added 78 new roles to our job board since last week! 🙌 This includes positions at: • Fish Welfare Initiative • Lead Exposure Elimination Project • UK Government, AI Safety Institute • Epoch AI. Check out all 971 vacancies ➡ jobs.80000hours.org

We’re mailing a free book to everyone who signs up for our newsletter. These books introduce ideas we think are really important for building a successful career focused on tackling the world’s most pressing problems. We think you’ll really like them (although we know the authors and we wrote one of them, so we’re a bit biased!) Choose from: 📗 The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity By Oxford philosopher and 80,000 Hours trustee Toby Ord. It's about the greatest threats facing humanity, and the strategies we can use today to safeguard our future. 📙 Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and How You Can Make a Difference By philosopher and 80,000 Hours cofounder Will MacAskill. It's about how we can have a bigger positive social impact using some core ideas from the effective altruism movement. 📘 80,000 Hours: Find a Fulfilling Career That Does Good By our cofounder Benjamin Todd. Our book is based on years of research alongside academics at Oxford, and aims to help you find a career you enjoy, you’re good at, and that tackles the world’s most pressing problems. Sign up at 80000hours.org/freebook24

We've added 157 new roles to our job board since last week! 📈 This includes positions at: • Good Impressions • The Good Food Institute • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) • Malaria Consortium. Check out all ✨ 953 ✨ vacancies ➡ jobs.80000hours.org

We've added 110 new roles to our job board since last week! 👏 This includes positions at: • PATH, Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access • Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. • The Good Food Institute • Open Philanthropy. Check out all 886 vacancies ➡ jobs.80000hours.org

From poker to politics, Nate Silver shares how probabilistic thinking can improve decision-making (and its limitations) on our latest podcast episode with host Rob Wiblin:

We've added 108 new roles to our job board since last week! 🚀 This includes positions at: • Google DeepMind • Mercy For Animals • Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine • ML Alignment & Theory Scholars. Check out all 855 vacancies ➡ jobs.80000hours.org

We've added 59 new roles to our job board since last week! 💼 This includes positions at: • Charity Entrepreneurship/AIM • AI Safety Institute (UK Government) • Nuclear Threat Initiative • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Check out all 812 vacancies ➡ jobs.80000hours.org

We've added 92 new roles to our job board since last week! 🚀 This includes positions at: • Pure Earth • Fish Welfare Initiative • MiracleFeet • Animal Advocacy Careers. Check out all 845 vacancies ➡ jobs.80000hours.org

New Post on “What are the best ways to fight the next pandemic?"! We are excited to share the latest article in our "Anonymous Answers: Biosecurity" series, where Tessa Alexanian and I gathered insights from over a dozen leading biosecurity experts. This article covers the experts’ views on: - The relative importance of technical interventions versus policy work - The prioritization of prevention strategies versus response capabilities - The focus on natural pandemic threats versus deliberate biological risks - The role of intelligence and national security in pandemic preparedness - The importance of behavioral science and public communication in crisis response - The potential of various technologies like improved PPE, biosurveillance, and pathogen-agnostic approaches A few months ago, we released our first article on common misconceptions in biosecurity (https://lnkd.in/e6H8af8Y). Over the next couple of weeks, we will publish two more articles covering expert insights on dual-use information and the intersection of artificial intelligence and biotechnologies. Read our latest post here: https://lnkd.in/e5BTTNbw

Can #superforecasters help us avoid extinction? From AI to nuclear war, Ezra Karger breaks down how we can better predict existential threats to humanity: