80,000 Hours founder Ben Todd releases career guide with Penguin, detailing data-driven frameworks for AI safety work

80,000 Hours content is in my top 5 personal most influential pieces of media. A lot of my thinking and writing was improved by the standard they set in their articles. If you read 80k problem profiles you'll notice that I'm basically trying to make the same move of getting my footing in a specific problem by trying to see all the meaningful quantitative information I can get about it and infer what matters the most. The original book is still one of the great holy texts for me, partly because the basic message is so simple but so not acted on almost anywhere: you should actually try to think a lot about planning your career to do good in a really quantitative way. Once you start to pay attention to how many people's careers basically involve coasting along on the first thing that gave them status, the basic ritual of actually writing down and thinking through what you're doing looks a lot more important. I've separately also been pretty excited for more media on how to think about careers that will actually help with the future of AI, because so little good material is actually out there. Expecting this to be great on that too. There's not a lot of EA media that I unreservedly recommend to everyone but this book is. I'm pretty pumped to read it.