Biorisk skepticism

TagLast edit: 28 Feb 2024 13:43 UTC by Vasco Grilo🔸

Biorisk skepticism is skepticism about arguments that biological agents pose a catastrophic or existential risk.

What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?

80000_Hours29 Feb 2024 14:52 UTC

99 points

3 comments14 min readEA link

(80000hours.org)

Can a terrorist attack cause human extinction? Not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸2 Dec 2023 8:20 UTC

43 points

9 comments15 min readEA link

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Feb 2024 17:58 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(hearthisidea.com)

Exaggerating the risks (Part 13: Ord on Biorisk)

Vasco Grilo🔸31 Dec 2023 8:45 UTC

57 points

18 comments13 min readEA link

(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

In favour of exploring nagging doubts about x-risk

Owen Cotton-Barratt25 Jun 2024 23:52 UTC

89 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

Forecasting accidentally-caused pandemics

JoshuaBlake17 Jan 2024 19:36 UTC

48 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

RAND report finds no effect of current LLMs on viability of bioterrorism attacks

Lizka26 Jan 2024 20:10 UTC

108 points

17 comments3 min readEA link

(www.rand.org)

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Biorisk skepticism

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What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?

Can a terrorist attack cause human extinction? Not on priors

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons

Exaggerating the risks (Part 13: Ord on Biorisk)

In favour of exploring nagging doubts about x-risk

Forecasting accidentally-caused pandemics

RAND report finds no effect of current LLMs on viability of bioterrorism attacks

Biorisk skepticism

Further reading

Related entries

What are the biggest mis­con­cep­tions about biose­cu­rity and pan­demic risk?

Can a ter­ror­ist at­tack cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Not on priors

So­nia Ben Oua­grham-Gorm­ley on Bar­ri­ers to Bioweapons

Ex­ag­ger­at­ing the risks (Part 13: Ord on Biorisk)

In favour of ex­plor­ing nag­ging doubts about x-risk

Fore­cast­ing ac­ci­den­tally-caused pandemics

RAND re­port finds no effect of cur­rent LLMs on vi­a­bil­ity of bioter­ror­ism attacks

What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?

Can a terrorist attack cause human extinction? Not on priors

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons

Exaggerating the risks (Part 13: Ord on Biorisk)

In favour of exploring nagging doubts about x-risk

Forecasting accidentally-caused pandemics

RAND report finds no effect of current LLMs on viability of bioterrorism attacks