person

Benjamin Todd

Founder of 80,000 Hours

Co-founder of 80,000 Hours, the EA career-advice organization that has placed hundreds of researchers into AI safety roles. Author of '80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good'.

current Founder, Senior Adviser, 80,000 Hours

@ben_j_todd

Strategy positions

EA framingendorses

Explicitly EA-grounded prioritisation of existential risk

Argues talented graduates should treat AI safety as one of the highest-impact career paths; has steered 80k's pipeline toward this since at least 2017.

AI safety is plausibly the most important problem of our time. The best way to help is often to switch career paths into it, even when the personal cost is significant.

¶ articleWhy AI safety is one of the highest-priority cause areas· 80,000 Hours· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Benjamin Todd's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Hilary Greaves
shared 1 · J=1.00
Oxford GPI; longtermist moral philosopher
Nick Beckstead
shared 1 · J=1.00
Future Fund co-founder; FHI alumnus

Record last updated 2026-04-25.