My name is Elias Malisi, though my friends call me Prince.
My mission is mitigating existential risk from transformative AI with particular concern for s-risks.
To this end, I am currently upskilling for AI safety research while studying math & philosophy at the University of St Andrews and co-organising the upcoming St Andrews AI Safety Hub.
I grew up in Germany where I graduated high school in 2023 with a perfect GPA, receiving an national award in the subject of ethics.
I have been introduced to EA through the Atlas Fellowship around May 2023 and have since been engaging with the ideas of EA intensively. In summer 2023, I participated in the Introductory EA Virtual Program, the Precipice Reading Group, and the AI Safety Quest Pilot Program. Following this, I became involved with EA St Andrews in September 2023 and have since partaken in the group’s career co-working program.
I am primarily interested in three sets of related fields:
Rationality and self-improvement (as applied to supporting me in 1. and 2.)
Edit: I now believe knowledge of fungal pathogens to be an information hazard and do not endorse publicising it outside of relevant communities.
I strongly agree to the fact that we should take fungal pathogens seriously and that awareness of potentially existential risk from fungal pathogens is scarce.
The facts laid out in this post are quite shocking and I expect that many people would take fungal pathogens seriously after being presented with them. Thus I believe it might be useful to start raising awareness outside of EA circles as well in order to attract more biosecurity researchers.
One way of attempting this would be to reach out to major youtube channels who cover this kind of content such as Kurzgesagt and see whether they would be willing to release videos on fungal pathogens.