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Find similar grantsBiosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness is sponsored by Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy). Funds organizations and individuals working to prevent engineered biological threats and improve global response capabilities.
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness | Coefficient Giving Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness We support work to guard against catastrophic biological risks, especially ones from advanced technology. Associate Program Officer Associate Program Officer Associate Program Officer Interested in providing funding within this space? Reach out to partnerwithus@coefficientgiving.
org . Disease outbreaks have been responsible for some of the deadliest events in human history. Over five years, COVID-19 caused tens of millions of excess deaths and shrank the global economy by tens of trillions of dollars.
But that was far from a worst-case scenario: advances in biotechnology and AI could make future biological risks even more severe than natural diseases. These risks could be among the greatest threats to society — capable of derailing centuries of progress or even causing human extinction.
Since our work on biosecurity began — five years before COVID-19 — we’ve been supporting research, technology, and policy initiatives aimed at preventing these risks and mitigating their consequences, with a particular focus on technological risks. Access to the right tools and knowledge could save millions of lives in future catastrophic biological events.
Our grantees’ work includes: Developing widespread affordable respiratory protection to protect healthcare staff and other essential workers in the event of a pandemic. Advancing defensive technologies like metagenomic sequencing to detect pathogens and Far-UVC light to disinfect shared spaces.
Improving governance and security, through stronger international norms on biological weapons, dual-use research oversight, mirror bacteria , and DNA synthesis screening. 10 Big Projects for Reducing Bio X-risk Chris Bakerlee, associate program officer for the Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness Fund, writes about 10 important projects that he’d be excited to see people work on and own.
The Four Pillars: A Hypothesis for Countering Catastrophic Biological Risk Andrew Snyder-Beattie — who leads Coefficient Giving’s Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Fund — outlines a hypothesis for four ‘pillars’ of biodefense that should work against even the most sophisticated engineered pathogens (or ‘unknown unknowns’).
Andrew Snyder-Beattie on the Low-Tech Plan To Patch Humanity’s Greatest Weakness Conventional wisdom is that safeguarding humanity from the worst biological risks is difficult bordering on impossible, making bioweapons humanity’s single greatest vulnerability. Andrew Snyder-Beattie thinks conventional wisdom could be wrong.
New York Times: A 'Second Tree of Life' Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.
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Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), the largest funder in existential risk reduction, has issued a Request for Proposals for Technical AI Safety Research focused on alignment, interpretability, and control of advanced AI systems. The RFP accepts proposals on a rolling basis with no fixed deadline. Coefficient Giving expects to spend roughly $40 million on this initiative and is open to spending substantially more depending on application quality. The program funds a wide range of activities including fundamental alignment research, interpretability and mechanistic understanding of AI systems, AI control and containment strategies, evaluation and benchmarking of AI safety properties, scalable oversight methods, and seed funding for new AI safety research organizations. This is distinct from Coefficient Giving's separate AI Governance Research RFP which focuses on policy and governance questions.
Coefficient Giving (the rebranded Open Philanthropy) is funding technical research that advances the science of building safe and trustworthy AI systems, including understanding and preventing frontier AI system misalignment, creating valid evaluations and interventions, and developing oversight mechanisms for superhuman AI capabilities. The RFP is open to proposals of many sizes and purposes, ranging from rapid funding for API credits and compute to discrete 6-24 month projects, academic start-up packages, and seed funding for new research organizations. Coefficient expected to deploy roughly $40 million over the initial period, with capacity to spend substantially more depending on application quality.