{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"80,000 Hours Podcast","title":"#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":9271,"description":"“Politics. Business. Opinion. Science. Sports. Animal welfare. Existential risk.” Is this a plausible future lineup for major news outlets?\n\nFunded by the Rockefeller Foundation and given very little editorial direction, Vox's Future Perfect aspires to be more or less that.\n\nCompetition in the news business creates pressure to write quick pieces on topical political issues that can drive lots of clicks with just a few hours' work.\n\nBut according to Kelsey Piper, staff writer for this new section of Vox's website focused on effective altruist themes, Future Perfect's goal is to run in the opposite direction and make room for more substantive coverage that's not tied to the news cycle.\n\nThey hope that in the long-term talented writers from other outlets across the political spectrum can also be attracted to tackle these topics.\n\nLinks to learn more, summary and full transcript.\n\nLinks to Kelsey's top articles.\n\nSome skeptics of the project have questioned whether this general coverage of global catastrophic risks actually helps reduce them.\n\nKelsey responds: if you decide to dedicate your life to AI safety research, what’s the likely reaction from your family and friends? Do they think of you as someone about to join \"that weird Silicon Valley apocalypse thing\"? Or do they, having read about the issues widely, simply think “Oh, yeah. That seems important. I'm glad you're working on it.”\n\nKelsey believes that really matters, and is determined by broader coverage of these kinds of topics.\n\nIf that's right, is journalism a plausible pathway for doing the most good with your career, or did Kelsey just get particularly lucky? After all, journalism is a shrinking industry without an obvious revenue model to fund many writers looking into the world's most pressing problems.\n\nKelsey points out that one needn't take the risk of committing to journalism at an early age. Instead listeners can specialise in an important topic, while leaving open the option of switching into...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VO1STE7hN95RRg9QdLo4soV2VhhbR9PF5ZZlRhDYcwE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNDAyLzE2ODM1/NDQ1NDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}