{"id":85486,"date":"2024-01-23T16:55:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/?page_id=85486"},"modified":"2024-02-15T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T17:48:51","slug":"ai-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/ai-book\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re developing an AI safety careers&nbsp;handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re creating <strong>a new book compiling all of our most important advice for entering the field of AI safety and governance!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a work in progress, and we&#8217;d love to get your input.<\/p>\n<p>If you have thoughts on what you&#8217;d want from an AI safety careers handbook, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/HjhrQixs84nmnViu8\">please fill out this survey<\/a><\/strong>. There you can sign up to our mailing list to be among the first alerted when the new book is available.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the topics we plan to cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fundamental case for thinking the risk of an AI-related catastrophe is one of the world&#8217;s most pressing problems<\/li>\n<li>Why AI safety and governance could be among the most impactful career paths<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of career strategies we recommend you pursue within these paths<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of work is already happening<\/li>\n<li>What you need to know to:\n<ul>\n<li>Get started in a career path focused on helping reduce AI risk<\/li>\n<li>Test your fit for different types of roles<\/li>\n<li>Build career capital for the long (or medium) term<\/li>\n<li>Gain valuable skills that will help you contribute as much as you can<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;re also still assessing the demand for the book, so if you&#8217;d be excited to read it, please <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/HjhrQixs84nmnViu8\">let us know<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Below, we have a draft table of contents for the upcoming book. Click the links to see our most up-to-date thinking about these subjects.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap section-full-width bg-alternating-start-off-white padding-top-larger padding-bottom-larger\">\n<div class=\"container \">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 col-content\">\n<h2>Our working table of contents<\/h2>\n<hr>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Section 1: Preventing an AI-related catastrophe\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/problem-profiles\/artificial-intelligence\/#making-advances-extremely-quickly\">AI is moving fast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/problem-profiles\/artificial-intelligence\/#power-seeking-ai\">The risk of misalignment and power-seeking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/problem-profiles\/artificial-intelligence\/#other-risks\">Misuse and structural risks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/problem-profiles\/artificial-intelligence\/#best-arguments-against-this-problem-being-pressing\">Counter-arguments to AI risk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/what-could-an-ai-caused-existential-catastrophe-actually-look-like\/\">What could an AI-related catastrophe actually look like?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Section 2: Technical AI safety career paths\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/career-reviews\/ai-safety-researcher\/\">AI technical safety research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/career-reviews\/information-security\/\">Information security<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/career-reviews\/become-an-expert-in-ai-hardware\/\">AI hardware expertise<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Section 3: AI governance and policy\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/career-reviews\/ai-policy-and-strategy\/\">AI governance and coordination<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/articles\/us-ai-policy\/\">US AI policy careers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/career-reviews\/china-related-ai-safety-and-governance-paths\/\">China-related AI safety and governance paths<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p>Again, if you&#8217;re interested in this book, we&#8217;d love for you to help us decide what to include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/HjhrQixs84nmnViu8\" title=\"\" class=\"btn btn-primary\">TAKE THE SURVEY<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Learn more about AI<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Problem profile: <a href=\"\/problem-profiles\/artificial-sentience\/\">Artificial sentience<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/podcast\/episodes\/ajeya-cotra-accidentally-teaching-ai-to-deceive-us\/\">Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/podcast\/episodes\/holden-karnofsky-how-ai-could-take-over-the-world\/\">Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they&#8217;re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/podcast\/episodes\/jeff-sebo-ethics-digital-minds\/\">Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/podcast\/episodes\/markus-anderljung-regulating-cutting-edge-ai\/\">Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/podcast\/episodes\/lennart-heim-compute-governance\/\">Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/podcast\/episodes\/rohin-shah-deepmind-doomers-and-doubters\/\">Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"container padding-bottom-larger\">\n<div class=\"row padding-top-larger\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 col-content\">\n<div class=\"well bg-gray-lighter margin-bottom margin-top padding-top-small padding-bottom-small\">\n<h2>Sign up for our newsletter<\/h2>\n<p>You can also sign up for our newsletter to receive updates about our research, as well as information about jobs and other opportunities.<\/p>\n<form data-80k-object-id=\"\" data-80k-form-action=\"newsletter__subscribe\" action=\"\/\" method=\"post\" class=\"form-newsletter-signup form-newsletter-signup-step-1 margin-bottom-smaller\">\n<div class=\"mc-field-group input-group compact-input-group \"> <input type=\"email\" value=\"\" name=\"email\" required class=\"form-control email\" placeholder=\"Email address\" id=\"input_email\"> <span class=\"submit input-group-btn input-group-btn-right\"> <input type=\"submit\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" class=\"btn btn-primary \" \/> <\/span> <\/div>\n<div> <input name=\"_eightyk_action\" value=\"mailchimp_add_subscriber\" type=\"hidden\"> <input name=\"redirect_path_after_step_2\" value=\"\/newsletter\/welcome\/\" type=\"hidden\"> <\/div>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; 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