Thanks Howie, but a quick note that this was an individual take by me rather than necessarily capturing the whole group; different people within the group will have work they feel is more impactful and important.
Updates on a few of the more forward-looking items mentioned in that comment.
We’re in the process of re-running the biological engineering horizon-scan, as well as finishing up an ’80 questions for UK biosecurity’ expert elicitation process.
Thanks Howie, but a quick note that this was an individual take by me rather than necessarily capturing the whole group; different people within the group will have work they feel is more impactful and important.
Updates on a few of the more forward-looking items mentioned in that comment.
A paper on AI and nukes is now out here: https://www.cser.ac.uk/resources/learning-climate-change-debate-avoid-polarisation-negative-emissions/
A draft/working paper on methodologies and evidence base for xrisk/gcr is here, with a few more in peer review: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/89506/1/Beard_Existential-Risk-Assessments_Accepted.pdf
We’re in the process of re-running the biological engineering horizon-scan, as well as finishing up an ’80 questions for UK biosecurity’ expert elicitation process.
We successfully hired Natalie Jones, author of one of the pieces mentioned (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328717301179), and she’ll do international law/governance and GCR work with us
Ah, sorry. Was writing quickly and that was kind of sloppy on my part. Thanks for the correction!
Edited to be clearer.