Basically like “What Success Looks Like” (which is about transformative AI) but instead about what a world would look like that is really well protected from catastrophic pandemics.
It could be set in e.g. 2035, and describe what technologies and (political) mechanisms have been implemented to make the world “biosafe”—i.e. safe from global catastrophic biological risks.
I could even imagine versions of this that are a fictional story, maybe describing the life of someone living in that potential future.
(I’m linking Xander because I have a hunch that her publication might be interested in commissioning something here/ she might be interested in writing a fiction piece.)
What a biosafe world looks like
Basically like “What Success Looks Like” (which is about transformative AI) but instead about what a world would look like that is really well protected from catastrophic pandemics.
It could be set in e.g. 2035, and describe what technologies and (political) mechanisms have been implemented to make the world “biosafe”—i.e. safe from global catastrophic biological risks.
I could even imagine versions of this that are a fictional story, maybe describing the life of someone living in that potential future.
@xander_balwit
Xander, lmk if you have thought about this, and we can chat.
(I’m linking Xander because I have a hunch that her publication might be interested in commissioning something here/ she might be interested in writing a fiction piece.)
This post by Carl Shulman is very similar to this, I think.
Very cool thanks for pointing that out! I think I might have seen it before but had forgotten about it—will check it out again.