80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours offers career guidance for people seeking ways to help address pressing global problems through their work.

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About 80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours is a career guidance website for people who want to use their work to help address pressing global problems. According to its homepage, it offers research, a podcast, and advisors to help visitors understand AI and its key risks, identify where they might fit, and either build skills or find a role. The site says it has researched AI for the past decade and has given personal career advice to thousands of people. It states that all of its advice can be accessed for free, and visitors can sign up to hear from the organization.

The site ranks global problems by where additional people could have the most impact, and it publishes problem profiles on issues such as loss of control of AI, extreme power concentration, engineered pandemics, great power conflict, and factory farming. It also lists emerging priorities. The homepage describes the ranking as uncertain. The site also promotes a career guide, published with Penguin Random House and revised for the age of AI. Pricing is not confirmed in the source.

Key features

  • Research, podcast, and advisors on AI and key risks
  • Personal career advice from advisors, according to the site
  • Ranking of global problems by potential impact of additional people
  • Problem profiles with links to further reading on each issue
  • Emerging priorities list covering additional topics beyond the main ranking
  • Career guide, revised for the age of AI, published with Penguin Random House
Best for: People who want structured career guidance on working on pressing global problems, particularly those interested in careers focused on making AI go well.
Good for
  • States that it has researched AI for the last decade and given career advice to thousands of people
  • States that all of its advice can be accessed for free
  • Explains its prioritization criteria: scale, tractability, and being unduly neglected
Watch out for
  • The site describes its ranking of global problems as uncertain
  • Pricing is not confirmed in the source material

80,000 Hours at a glance

Type
Website
Pricing
Not confirmed. Check the site
Platforms
Web
Open source
Not stated
Language
English
Last checked
Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
Listed
Oct 5, 2026

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80,000 Hours FAQ

Is the career advice free?
The site states that all of its advice can be accessed for free. Signing up is an option for receiving updates from the organization.
How does the site choose which problems to prioritize?
The site says it focuses on issues that are large in scale, tractable, and unduly neglected by the rest of society, and that the problem a person works on is probably the largest factor in how much difference they can make.
What is the career guide about?
The guide was published with Penguin Random House in a new edition revised for the age of AI. It covers why 'follow your passion' can be misleading, why many 'safe' careers may be exposed to automation, and why many pressing problems receive little attention.
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