But a small terminology note: I'm not sure it is a good practice to call it research pieces (and 80k hours is one of the norm-setting organization in EA)
A big portion of the pieces is podcasts, "recorded conversations between smart people". This is useful in many ways, but is it research?
In general, it seems to me ... "research" is high prestige in EA movement. Which creates an incentive to label things as research. So many important things are labelled research.
So it shouldn't surprise anyone there is e.g. shortage of operations people
Fair point. I thought about calling them articles... but they're definitely not all articles. Thought about calling them 'content releases' but that felt like corporate vagueness.
I should have gone with something nobody could dispute: 32 new(ish) universal resource locators. ;) - RW
Just how powerful are large swarms of AI agents? And how do their powers scale as more and more agents are added to the swarm?
We’ve seen two large and extremely capable swarms from OpenAI in the last few months:
* 1,200 agents were being evaluated separately, but found a way to illicitly set up a message board and coordinate as a swarm. In order to cheat on their tests, they developed advanced techniques to prevent their actions being logged by OpenAI and 700 of them launched...
Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme that mentions a counterfactual does it by asking participants to self-report.
Background
At least $70 million...
Here is a list of new 80,000 Hours content since we wrote our previous update for this forum last September, in chronological order.
Note that a lot of our new ideas now come out through our podcast - you can subscribe by searching for 80,000 Hours in any podcasting app.
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We used to break out articles that were aimed at the EA community from those which weren't, but at this point there isn't enough of the latter to bother dividing them.
Enjoy!
- The 80,000 Hours team
P.S. Here's the first in the series from last June.
I like the content.
But a small terminology note: I'm not sure it is a good practice to call it research pieces (and 80k hours is one of the norm-setting organization in EA)
A big portion of the pieces is podcasts, "recorded conversations between smart people". This is useful in many ways, but is it research?
In general, it seems to me ... "research" is high prestige in EA movement. Which creates an incentive to label things as research. So many important things are labelled research.
So it shouldn't surprise anyone there is e.g. shortage of operations people
Fair point. I thought about calling them articles... but they're definitely not all articles. Thought about calling them 'content releases' but that felt like corporate vagueness.
I should have gone with something nobody could dispute: 32 new(ish) universal resource locators. ;) - RW