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Ramez Naam
@ramez
Climate and clean energy investor. Author of 5 books. Energy & Environment co-chair @SingularityU. Trying to build a better world.
Joined May 2007
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Yes. Bio-risk exists today, from zoonotic outbreaks, accidents, and bio-terror. We know a great many things we can and should do to increase societal resilience, and have done almost none. Independent of how AI changes the risk, we should be doing the basics here. 1. Pathogen detection in waste streams, water supplies, and perhaps even indoor air. 2. Proactive design of template vaccines for every known virus family. 3. Pre-build vaccine manufacturing capability to have on standby. 4. Physical countermeasures: UV in the HVACs of all large buildings, airports, etc..; Stockpiling PPE. 5. R&D into new approaches like PCANS and other techniques that block viral transmission. These are all no-regret bio-defense policies that increase our resilience to natural pandemics, lab leaks, or intentional bio-attacks (AI augmented or not). Defense in depth.
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