According to the World Health Organization, the global biosecurity threat is increasing. One reason is that genetic editing and synthesis technologies are advancing and becoming more widely accessible. Another is the continuing characterization of the genetic makeup that would make a pathogen especially lethal, exceptionally communicable, and otherwise dangerous to human populations. Almost no country…| Blog of the APA
At times, effective altruists show strong regard for scientific, scholarly and journalistic authority. But sometimes they do not.| Reflective altruism
This post concludes my sub-series on existential biorisk by drawing lessons from the previous discussion| Reflective altruism
This post continues my investigation of biorisk from LLMs by looking at a recent redteaming study from the RAND Corporation.| Reflective altruism