Our current list of the most important world problems - 80,000 Hours
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Which problems are the biggest, most tractable, and most neglected in the world - and what can you do about them?
We prioritise problems that are especially large in scale, neglected by others, and solvable — because that’s where additional people can usually make the biggest difference . This list is our best guess at which problems score highest on those factors, and therefore most need more people working on them. This list is constantly evolving, and we expect to revise it over time. There are also many reasonable ways to disagree . We’ve ranked risks from advanced AI and catastrophic pandemics as top issues since 2016. But with artificial general intelligence (AGI) possibly arriving withi
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