Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them

Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them

Today’s release is the second experiment in making audio versions of our articles.

The first was a narration of Greg Lewis’ terrific problem profile on ‘Reducing global catastrophic biological risks’, which you can find on the podcast feed just before episode #74 - that is, our interview with Greg about the piece.

If you want to check out the links in today’s article, you can find those here.

And if you have feedback on these, positive or negative, it’d be great if you could email us at podcast@80000hours.org.

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#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after

#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after

As AI advances ever more quickly, concerns about potential misuse of highly capable models are growing. From hostile foreign governments and terrorists to reckless entrepreneurs, the threat of AI fall...

22 Kesä 20233h 12min

#154 - Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters

#154 - Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters

Can there be a more exciting and strange place to work today than a leading AI lab? Your CEO has said they're worried your research could cause human extinction. The government is setting up meetings ...

9 Kesä 20233h 9min

#153 – Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6 lessons from their recent work

#153 – Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6 lessons from their recent work

GiveWell is one of the world's best-known charity evaluators, with the goal of "searching for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar." It mostly recommends projects that help the...

2 Kesä 20232h 56min

#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

What is the nature of the universe? How do we make decisions correctly? What differentiates right actions from wrong ones?Such fundamental questions have been the subject of philosophical and theologi...

19 Touko 20233h 26min

#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us

#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us

Imagine you are an orphaned eight-year-old whose parents left you a $1 trillion company, and no trusted adult to serve as your guide to the world. You have to hire a smart adult to run that company, g...

12 Touko 20232h 49min

#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world

#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world

It’s easy to dismiss alarming AI-related predictions when you don’t know where the numbers came from.For example: what if we told you that within 15 years, it’s likely that we’ll see a 1,000x improvem...

5 Touko 20233h 1min

Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours)

Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours)

In this episode from our second show, 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla about the Shrimp Welfare Project, which he cofounded in 2021. It's the first project in the world f...

22 Huhti 20231h 17min

#149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating

#149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating

Being a good and successful person is core to your identity. You place great importance on meeting the high moral, professional, or academic standards you set yourself. But inevitably, something goes ...

12 Huhti 20233h 11min

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