“Invididual Effort to Reduce Biorisk” by jefftk

I'm pretty worried about how AI might change the world a lot very soon. In some of these cases things go very wrong very quickly, in others things go very right very quickly, but I'm increasingly (relative to 2024) expecting a messy middle path where, whether we end up with a good or bad outcome, things might get weird for a while. Our supply chains are fragile, fulfilment is largely just-in-time, and if we'll suddenly need way more of some things they might not be available. Thinking a lot about biosecurity for my day job, I'm especially worried about how people, AIs, or some combination might release something to spread through the population. What can we do about this? A few months ago Chris Bakerlee (program officer on Coefficient Giving's biosecurity and pandemic preparedness team) wrote up 10 big projects for reducing bio x-risk. Working on any of these professionally would be really valuable. Looking over the list, however, it occurred to me that most of them have solid actions we can do at the individual level. Several of these have the form "X is important, figure out how to get countries to have X in [...] --- First published: September 2nd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ksdewBFC5vtCDM4tx/invididual-effort-to-reduce-biorisk --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.