80,000 Hours
80,000 Hours is a London-based nonprofit that helps people use their careers to solve the world's most pressing problems. The organization provides free online career guides, a curated job board, in-depth podcast interviews, one-on-one career advising, and a growing video programme. Founded in 2011 at Oxford by Ben Todd and Will MacAskill, 80,000 Hours has helped over 3,000 people make significant career changes toward high-impact work. Since 2016, the organization has ranked navigating the development of advanced AI as the world's most pressing problem, and since early 2025 has focused especially on helping people work on safely navigating the transition to powerful AGI.
Funding Details
- Annual Budget
- $10,430,000
- Monthly Burn Rate
- $869,167
- Current Runway
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Theory of Change
80,000 Hours believes that helping talented individuals redirect their careers toward the world's most pressing problems is one of the highest-leverage interventions available. Their theory of change rests on the premise that the approximately 80,000 working hours in a typical career represent an enormous resource that most people underutilize for social impact due to inadequate career guidance and a lack of awareness about which problems matter most. By conducting rigorous research to identify the most pressing global problems (currently led by AI safety), providing free career advice and coaching, curating high-impact job opportunities, and directly placing people into critical roles through headhunting, 80,000 Hours aims to shift the talent pipeline toward existential risk reduction. The organization believes that getting more capable people working on AI safety, biosecurity, and other catastrophic risks during the current critical period will meaningfully reduce the probability of existential catastrophe. Each career plan change represents decades of future work redirected toward humanity's most important challenges.
Grants Received
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
from Survival and Flourishing Fund
Projects
A video content program produced by 80,000 Hours that uses cinematic, long-form storytelling to communicate the risks of transformative AI to general audiences. Hosted by Aric Floyd, the program publishes on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.
The 80,000 Hours Job Board is a curated listing of high-impact job opportunities at organizations working on the world's most pressing problems, particularly AI safety and biosecurity. It is a flagship product of 80,000 Hours, the effective altruism career advice nonprofit.
A flagship long-form interview podcast from 80,000 Hours exploring the world's most pressing problems and how careers can be used to address them, with a strong focus on AI safety.
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