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How to pivot before the intelligence explosion

Zershaaneh Qureshi, Benjamin Todd, Zashana, Ben Todd

Ben Todd and the *80,000 Hours* team outline a strategic framework for navigating AI risks by analyzing three potential timelines, from rapid AGI emergence to compute plateaus, while urging professionals to build career capital in operations, policy, and communication roles. The discussion details how automating AI research could compress five years of progress into months, creating extreme power concentrations that demand urgent governance and diversified workforce strategies to mitigate inequality. Finally, the event offers a five-step transition playbook and emphasizes that marginal improvements in career capital, donations, and political advocacy can significantly increase the probability of a positive outcome in an era of accelerated technological change.