![]() ![]() In the 1950s, large scale production of nuclear weapons meant that a few world leaders gained, for the first time, the ability to kill hundreds of millions of people. The kinds of issues we currently prioritize most highly Emerging technologies and global catastrophic risks We then give a longer list of global issues that also seem promising to work on (and which could well be more promising than some of our priority problems), but which we haven’t investigated much yet.įinally, we talk about what, in practice, these categories might mean for your career. We begin this page with some categories of especially pressing world problems we’ve identified so far, which we then put in a roughly prioritized list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Longtermism is the idea that because such huge numbers of individuals might live in the long-run future, and because we think everyone’s interests matter equally, approaches to improving the world should be evaluated mainly in terms of their potential for long-term impact - over thousands, millions, or even billions of years. The most distinctive aspect of our approach is probably ‘longtermism’. Read about a framework we use for comparing issues, and the moral and methodological assumptions behind our views. Our views draw on work by the University of Oxford’s Global Priorities Institute, the Open Philanthropy Project, and our own research. ![]()
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