
Cody Fenwick
Research Analyst at 80000 Hours
Research analyst for @80000Hours. Views expressed here are my own.
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3 weeks ago |
80000hours.org | Cody Fenwick
By · Published April 4th, 2025 · SummaryThe proliferation of advanced AI systems may lead to the gradual disempowerment of humanity, even if efforts to prevent them from becoming power-seeking or scheming are successful. Humanity may be incentivised to hand over increasing amounts of control to AIs, giving them power over the economy, politics, culture, and more.
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1 month ago |
80000hours.org | Cody Fenwick
By · Published March 14th, 2025 · This week, let’s review key trends in the jobs we’ve found that may help mitigate AI risk, including:Growth in the number of postings in the fieldThe types of organisations that are hiringThe most in-demand skillsThe experience level required for these rolesWe’ve ranked catastrophic risks from AI as the world’s most pressing problem since 2016, but it’s only in the last few years that the topic has really hit the mainstream.
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Jan 3, 2025 |
80000hours.org | Cody Fenwick
By · Published January 3rd, 2025 · The idea this week: despite claims of stagnation, AI research still advanced rapidly in 2024. Some people say AI research has plateaued. But a lot of evidence from the last year points in the opposite direction:New capabilities were developed and emergedResearch indicates existing AI can accelerate scienceAnd at the same time, important findings about AI safety and risk came out (). AI advances might still stall.
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Dec 20, 2024 |
80000hours.org | Cody Fenwick
By · Published December 20th, 2024 · This week, we’re looking back at some of our top content from the year!Here are some of our favourite and most important articles, posts, and podcast episodes we published in 2024:Factory farming — There’s a clear candidate for the biggest moral mistake that humanity is currently making: factory farming. We raise and slaughter 1.6-4.5 trillion animals a year on factory farms, causing tremendous amounts of suffering.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
80000hours.org | Cody Fenwick
By · Published October 25th, 2024 · The idea this week: biosecurity experts disagree on many of the field’s most important questions. We spoke to more than a dozen biosecurity experts to understand the space better. We let them give their answers anonymously so that they could feel comfortable speaking their minds.
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These three key points about AI progress are all critical: 1. AI has made incredible progress 2. Current AI systems still have many flaws and limitations 3. Future AI systems will likely be much, much better I think sometimes people focus too much on either (1) or (2) without

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