Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big) - EA Forum

Andrew Snyder-Beattie and Ethan Alley • This is a list of longtermist biosecurity projects. We think most of them could reduce catastrophic biorisk by more than 1% or so on the current margin (in rel…

Ozzie Gooen 4y 22 0 0 Really happy to see this, this looks great. This is outside the scope of this document, but I'm a bit curious how useful it would have been to have such a list 3-5 years ago, and why it took so long. Previously I heard something like, "biosecurity is filled with info-hazards, so we can't have many people in it yet." Anyway, it makes a lot of sense to me that we have pretty safe intervention options after all, and I'm happy to see lists being created and acted upon. Reply

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