Hi everyone, Zershaaneh here!

80,000 Hours has published an article on using AI to improve societal decision making.

This post includes some context, the summary from the article, and the table of contents with links to each section.

This is meant to be a medium-depth, introductory resource for understanding how AI tools could be used to enhance societal decision making — and why speeding up their development and adoption could make a huge difference to how the future unfolds.

It covers:

• The kinds of tools we think are especially promising, and the opportunity we might have to differentially speed up their development and adoption.
• The possible pitfalls of trying to advance AI decision making tools — like the chance the tools you work on would have already been built by default, and the risk of inadvertently speeding up more dangerous AI capabilities.
• Our all-things-considered take on how much we recommend working in this area — and what sort of person would be a good fit. (Right now, we’d be excited to see hundreds more people taking this path, but we don’t think it's a good option for everyone.)
• Lots of options for getting involved — including roles that don’t [...]

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(00:28) Context

(01:34) Why are we posting this here?

(02:05) Summary (from the article)

(03:14) Overall view - Sometimes recommended.

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