Biosecurity and principles-first EA field-building
sharmaayushmaan🔸
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If you’re agenÂtic, work in biosecurity
Hey Joseph! I work on the Groups Team at CEA, and we run a program to support with just this. If you send me an email at ayushmaan.sharma@centreforeffectivealtruism.org I can get you connected :)
thanks for this—this is fantastic! the anchors are especially useful here!
Launch a bioseÂcuÂrity group on your campus
I want to flag some work that’s been going on to help with this. Big +1 that we need a lot more biosecurity fieldbuilding that encourages individuals to GM a particular topic/​focus area.
Research programs such as Impact Research Groups (London), Research Impact Oxford (Oxford), Cambridge Impact Research Program (Cambridge), Harvard-MIT Impact Research Initiative (Boston), Catalyst (UC Berkeley, UChicago, Purdue), all have dedicated biosecurity tracks and are vaguely managed under the CEA Pilot Unis team.
There now exists a community/​field-building page on the Biosecurity Hub Slack. If anyone is keen to join, feel free to let me know! I’m very much excited about global, large-scale, MATS-like, biosecurity fieldbuilding and would be keen to hear from potential collaborators.
Happy to chat about any of this: ayushmaan.sharma@dph.ox.ac.uk
Super excited to see this program launch and what comes out of it!