Benjamin Todd
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Benjamin Todd is the founder and president of 80,000 Hours. Dissatisfied with the career advice he received at university, he began researching the guidance he wished he’d had. Over the next ten years, he grew 80,000 Hours from a student society in Oxford into a non-profit with over fifty staff, reaching four million readers a year, going through Y Combinator, and earning coverage in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and BBC News. The organization’s advice has led thousands to change career path, including individuals who have helped launch the field of AI safety, taken key roles preventing the next pandemic, and donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. Today he writes about what to do about advanced AI. Benjamin holds a Master’s degree in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly.
