#118 - Transparent Screens, Pro-Social AI Engineers, and Mapping the Sea Floor!
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In the News
🥽 They finally made transparent laptop displays - only question now that we have them is whether they’re actually useful.
🦾 Prosthetic limbs can now sense temperature
💉 We’re so excited about the rollout of the RTS malaria vaccine in Burkina Faso and Cameroon. If successful, this truly could be a game changer in the fight against one of humanity’s greatest killers.
⛑️ Rest of World gave gig riders helmets that could measure smog. We love this style of independent reporting, and we were sad (though not surprised) by the findings that smog and pollution is hazardously high.
Opportunities
We absolutely LOVE the Foresight Institute and everything they do. They’re looking to hire a pro-social AI agent engineer (cool job title, right?) to help them “create a forkable virtual world filled with pro-social AI agents that help humans reach their goals while respecting the basic rights of meat.” It sounds super cool to us, and it’d be awesome to have someone from the Impact Labs Family join them!
Animal Outlook is looking for ops and outreach interns!
Thorn is looking for a software engineer to help them defend children and vulnerable youth from exploitation and violence. They have a tremendous mission, and they need talented, dedicated people working with them.
“The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join the Trust and Safety Product team. As a software engineer, you will be responsible for building features to keep our communities safe from abuse, harassment, vandalism, and harmful or illicit content. In this role, you will work in a fully-remote, geographically-distributed environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You will be writing open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a billion users at a place that believes we're all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.”
What We’re Watching
The world of semiconductor manufacturing is so interesting. This machine prints 8 nanometer wafers that power the computers we’ll be using in the future.
Seabed 2030 has the audacious goal of mapping the entire sea floor by 2030. So cool!
Contrary to popular belief, Millennials are wealthier than their parents were at their age.
Quotes We Love
“I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
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