80,000 Hours

What does it really take to lift millions out of poverty and prevent needless deaths? In this special compilation episode, 17 past guests — including economists, nonprofit founders, and policy advisors — share their most powerful and actionable insights from the front lines of global health and development. You’ll hear about the critical need to boost agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Afri…

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I’ve spent years calling for more government oversight of frontier AI development. So am I a hypocrite for opposing the Pentagon’s attempt to commit “corporate murder” against Anthropic? That’s what I’ve heard. As venture capitalist Marc Andreessen put it on Twitter: “Every single person who was in favor of government control of AI, is now opposed to government control of AI.” It’s a natural way …

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Richard Moulange: What the team were able to do was they had the base Evo 2 model, and then they fine-tuned it on what are called bacteriophages — so these are viruses that eat, that kill bacteria — fine-tuned it on something like 15,000 of those, and then started prompting it with the beginnings of known bacteriophage genomes to see if they can make new ones. So this is again akin to, with LLMs,…

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