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Industrial alternative foods for global catastrophic risks | Juan García Martínez
July 02, 2021 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBJuan presents the latest research on industrial food solutions for feeding everyone in the case of food-related global catastrophic risks. He focuses on sun-blocking global food catastrophes such as large asteroid impacts, supervolcanic eruptions and nuclear winter. The solutions presented include single-cell protein (SCP) from natural gas or from hydrogen and CO2, sugar from lignocellulosic biomass, and synthetic margarine from petroleum. Juan García Martínez is a Research Assistant at All...
An introduction to global priorities research | Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan
June 30, 2021 00:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBRossa gives a high-level introduction to global priorities research (GPR). He discusses GPI's research plans, and which other organisations are doing GPR. He also offers some thoughts about what students could do to find out more about GPR. Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics at Nuffield College and the Assistant Director of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. He completed my PhD in Economics at the University of Pennsylvani...
Closing gaps in alternative protein science | Amy Huang
June 22, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBGrowing meat directly from plants, microbes, and animal cells will allow us to build a food system that is better for human, animal, and planetary health. However, catalyzing this paradigm shift is a vast, multidisciplinary effort that requires scientists and engineers from disciplines ranging from tissue engineering and synthetic biology to computational science and chemical engineering. This workshop explored the state of plant-based, cultivated, and fermentation-derived meat research with...
AI alignment, philosophical pluralism, and the relevance of non-Western philosophy | Tan Zhi Xuan
June 15, 2021 06:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBHow can we build (super) intelligent machines that are robustly aligned with human values? AI alignment researchers strive to meet this challenge, but currently draw upon a relatively narrow set of philosophical perspectives common in effective altruism and computer science. This could pose risks in a world where human values are complex, plural, and fragile. Xuan discusses how these risks might be mitigated by greater philosophical pluralism, describing several problems in AI alignment whe...
Farm animal welfare and alternative protein opportunities in Asia-Pacific | Lewis Bollard
June 08, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBAsia-Pacific is home to most of the world's farm animals, and some of the best opportunities to help them. Lewis outlines the current state of farm animal welfare and alternative protein opportunities across the region, including what's changed in 2020. Lewis Bollard leads Open Philanthropy’s strategy for Farm Animal Welfare. Prior to joining Open Philanthropy, he worked as Policy Advisor & International Liaison to the CEO at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Prior to that, h...
Farm animal welfare and alternative protein opportunities in Asia-Pacific | Lewis Bollard
June 08, 2021 06:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBAsia-Pacific is home to most of the world's farm animals, and some of the best opportunities to help them. Lewis outlines the current state of farm animal welfare and alternative protein opportunities across the region, including what's changed in 2020. Lewis Bollard leads Open Philanthropy’s strategy for Farm Animal Welfare. Prior to joining Open Philanthropy, he worked as Policy Advisor & International Liaison to the CEO at The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Prior to that, h...
Gentle Bayesian updating | David Manley
June 08, 2021 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBThis talk is a friendly introduction to the formal model of learning from new evidence called "Bayesian updating". The Bayesian rule for updating is the most general account of how evidence works, encompassing and explaining the (limited) usefulness of statistical ideas like p-values and confidence intervals. This talk will show you how to do Bayesian updating in your head, using a simple formulation equivalent to the much more unwieldy equation known as 'Bayes' theorem.' David Manley is a...
Goals for university groups | Joan Gass
June 01, 2021 08:30 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBJoan explains why university groups are a focus area for CEA and gives some suggested goals for university groups to produce value. Joan Gass is the Managing Director for Centre for Effective Altruism. Joan works with Max on the executive team. Her roles include overseeing the Groups team, leading CEA’s work on the growth and onboarding of new community members, and providing input on organization-wide strategy. She has an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and an MPA in Intern...
What happens if you decide to start a charity? | Karolina Sarek & Nikita Patel
May 28, 2021 08:30 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBKarolina introduces Charity Entrepreneurship (CE), an organization dedicated to helping found and mentor new effective charities. Learn about the nonprofits CE has launched through its annual Incubation Program, and about the process of starting up and growing. Hear stories about the challenges and successes that a typical charity entrepreneur could face. Finally, discover how you can start your own career as a charity entrepreneur through the 2021 Program. Karolina is co-founder and Direc...
Fireside Chat | Nick Beckstead
May 21, 2021 08:30 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBNick Beckstead oversees a substantial part of Open Philanthropy’s research and grantmaking related to global catastrophic risk reduction. Previously, Nick led the creation of their grantmaking programs in scientific research and effective altruism. Prior to that, he was a research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. This talk was taken from EA Global Asia and Pacific 2020. Click here to watch the talk with the PowerPoint presentation.
Estimation and forecasting: an overview | Amanda Ngo | EA Student Summit
May 18, 2021 11:30 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBAmanda shares reasons to be excited about forecasting, walks through a process to forecast questions you care about, and shows how Ought’s tool, Elicit, can be helpful for this. From Amanda’s Website: Amanda Ngo works at Ought, a startup building tools to automate complex reasoning. Check out their forecasting product, Elicit! She love co-opting friends into social experiments, understanding how brains work, and figuring out what it means to live a good life.” This talk was taken from EA S...
How to make a difference by pledging to give more, and more effectively | Luke Freeman
May 14, 2021 08:30 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBWe have an amazing opportunity to significantly improve the world with the resources we have, if we use them effectively. Giving What We Can is a community of people committed to giving more, and giving more effectively. Luke Freeman manages Giving What We Can. He is also an active volunteer with various social impact focused projects (EAGxAustralia, Effective Altruism Australia, EA Sydney, Global Shapers Community). He has a background in marketing with a focus on growing early-stage techn...
How to help group members make effective career plans | Huw Thomas & Alex Holness-Tofts
May 11, 2021 08:30 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBHuw and Alex talk about some of the resources and events they’ve found most useful for helping group members with career planning. The workshop aims to be a broad overview, particularly for group leaders without much previous experience of guiding group members through career decisions. Huw Thomas develops resources for EA university groups, and assists them with strategy and planning. Before joining CEA, he studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has been funded ...
Bringing techno-globalism back: a romantically realist reframing of the US-China tech relationship | Jeffrey Ding
May 07, 2021 20:04 - 24 minutes - 17 MBTalk of decoupling, an AI arms race, and a tech Cold War abounds. These prominent narratives are rooted in the core assumption of techno-nationalism – that the nation-state is the key unit of analysis for understanding the global technology landscape. Yet, technology advances in a globalizing world. Jeffrey Ding outlines the case for bringing techno-globalism back – not the “end of geography” version, which is an easy target, but a romantically realist version – into debates about the US-Chi...
Fireside Chat | Jaan Tallinn
May 04, 2021 08:30 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBJaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Future of Life Institute, and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organisations. Jaan is on the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (thebulletin.org), and has served on the High-Level Expert Group on AI at the European Commission, as well as on the Estonian President’s Academic Advisory Board. He is also an active ...
International agreements to spend percentage of GDP on global public goods | Hauke Hillebrandt
April 30, 2021 08:30 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBHauke reviews international agreements to spend a percentage of GDP on public goods such as aid (0.7%), defence (NATO’s 2% target), R&D, global governance, etc. He shows how these agreements interact with priorities in effective altruism because they are large in scale, solve (global) public good dilemmas, and relate to differential technological development. Finally, he argues that we should advocate for a new international agreement to spend 1% of GDP on global risk reduction. Hauke Hille...
Against Malaria Foundation: the impact of accountability | Rob Mather
April 27, 2021 08:30 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBThe Against Malaria Foundation is one of the most effective global health charities in the world, and the single most common donation target for EA Survey respondents (2018 and 2019). What makes this organization so special? How do they approach their work, and what challenges do they face? Founder and CEO Rob Mather answers these questions. Rob Mather is the founder and CEO of The Against Malaria Foundation. AMF has now raised more than $190 million, funding 86 million anti-mosquito bed ne...
Why effective altruism is central to rebuilding social capital and egalitarianism | Andrew Leigh MP
April 23, 2021 08:30 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBOver the past few decades, many advanced nations have become more disconnected. People have fewer friends, join fewer organisations, and are less likely to be members of political parties, churches and unions. At the same time, inequality is on the rise. By focusing on rigorous impact, effective altruism can boost the quality and quantity of philanthropy, helping to replace individualism and isolation with collectivism and cooperation. Andrew Leigh is the Shadow Assistant Minister for Treas...
Operations Career Stories | Alfredo Parra, Marisa Jurczyk, Anne le Roux
April 20, 2021 08:30 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBAlfredo supports the Legal Priorities Project in operations. Before joining, he worked as Operations Analyst and then COO at the Center on Long-Term Risk and its parent organization, the Effective Altruism Foundation. He has a BSc in Engineering Physics from Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, and an MSc and a PhD in Computational Science from the Technical University of Munich. Marisa helps with a variety of day-to-day operations at Rethink Charity, including HR, legal compliance, and website mainte...
Meeting corporate cage-free egg pledges through impact incentives | Jayasimha Nuggehalli
April 16, 2021 08:30 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBJayasimha talks about the work of Global Food Partners to build the capacity of producers and provide them with financial incentives to transition to cage-free egg production successfully. From Jayasimha’s bio: “Currently, I am the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Global Food Partners. Under my leadership, I conceptualize, plan, and implement key initiatives to promote higher welfare production systems in the food sector. I also spearhead the development of innovative traceability ...
Seizing opportunities to improve animal welfare in Taiwan | Jonathon Tree
April 13, 2021 08:30 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBWork to improve the welfare of farmed animals is in its infancy; this is especially the case in the Asia Pacific. Thus, it is likely the most effective solutions lie ahead of us. Jonathon shares reflections on novel strategies based on EAST’s (benevolently) opportunistic approach to achieving change for animals in Taiwan. This episode relies more on the PowerPoint, so feel free to click below to watch Jonathon’s talk on YouTube. This talk was taken from EA Global Asia and Pacific 2020. Cli...
Australians’ perceptions of global catastrophic risks | Emily Grundy
April 09, 2021 08:30 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBEmily provides an introduction to the research collaboration READI – an organisation that conducts collaborative research to further the aims of the effective altruism movement. She outlines recent findings from the Survey of COVID-19 Responses to Understand Behaviour (SCRUB), which grew out of READI, regarding what the Australian public thinks about global catastrophic risks. This talk relies much on the PowerPoint presentation, so feel free to watch the presentation on YouTube via the lin...
Transforming how data drives decision-making in global development | Tony Senanayake
April 06, 2021 08:30 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBDespite the buzz around data-driven decision-making, it’s much easier to say than to do. Tony shares how IDinsight developed its Learning Partnership model to enable global development decision-makers – from government ministers to NGO leaders – to use real-time data to inform their policies and programs. He shares how IDinsight’s embedded teams are able to be reactive to changing social and political landscapes, transforming how poverty is addressed globally. Prior to joining IDinsight, T...
Starting a charity: the power of contextual expertise | Nikita Patel & Corrina Vali
April 02, 2021 08:30 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBConsidering starting your own charity? Nikita and Corrina discuss Fortify Health‘s startup journey, and the room for improvement in one important part of the current charity-startup landscape: contextual expertise. They make the call for more country-based founders to consider starting new, effective organisations and applying to the Charity Entrepreneurship programme. Nikita Patel previously worked in global health communications at Malaria Consortium. She’s also worked as Research & Outr...
Our latest research and recommendations on climate change | Johannes Ackva
March 30, 2021 08:30 - 26 minutes - 18 MBIn this episode, Johannes shares his thoughts on climate from an EA perspective including the latest recommendations from Founders Pledge on how to have an outsized impact through donations, as well as reflections on opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. Johannes joined the research team of Founders Pledge in 2019. He brings five years of experience working in a think tank advising decision-makers on climate policy, and has also researched the intersection between effective and feasible...
Moral standing and cause prioritization | Jason Schukraft
March 26, 2021 08:30 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this episode, Jason explains why it’s important to determine which creatures have moral standing and how that knowledge might affect the way we prioritize interventions and causes. He showcases one method for grappling with this problem, and outlines what skills are necessary to make progress in this area. Jason Schukraft is a Senior Research Manager at Rethink Priorities. Before joining the RP team, Jason earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. Jason s...
Journalism and accurately communicating EA ideas | Rob Wiblin, Michael Levine, and Kelsey Piper
March 23, 2021 08:30 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBA journalist, podcaster and communications expert talk about how to best explain EA ideas to the public — maximising understanding and minimising frustration. Rob Wiblin studied both genetics and economics at the Australian National University (ANU), graduating top of his class and being named Young Alumnus of the Year in 2015. He worked as a research economist in various Australian Government agencies, and then moved to the UK to work at the Centre for Effective Altruism, first as Research...
Naïve effective altruism and the danger of neglecting psychology | Stefan Schubert
March 19, 2021 08:30 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBStefan discusses the importance of considering our own and others’ emotions and psychological limits when practising effective altruism. Stephan Schubert is a researcher at the Social Behaviour and Ethics Lab, University of Oxford, working in the intersection of moral psychology and philosophy. He focuses on psychological questions of relevance to effective altruism, such as why our altruistic actions are often ineffective, and why we don’t invest more in safe-guarding our common future. He...
Self-care: balancing sacrifice and renewal | Daniel Kestenholz
March 16, 2021 08:30 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBDaniel talks about why self-care is challenging yet essential for almost anything you care about, and how you can manage your resources more deliberately. Quote from Daniel’s bio: “In my coaching practice, I help people in the effective altruism community face difficult challenges and make their biggest contribution to the world while taking care of themselves. I love to enter someone’s world and help them do what they’re capable of. It’s one of the most fulfilling things for me. Besides, c...
Artificial Intelligence Career Stories | Evan Hubinger and Caroline Jeanmaire
March 12, 2021 09:30 - 11 minutes - 7.59 MBIn this episode, Evan and Caroline share personal stories about their careers surrounding artificial intelligence. Evan Hubinger was an AI safety research intern at OpenAI before joining MIRI. His current work is aimed at solving inner alignment for iterated amplification. Evan was an author on “Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced Machine Learning Systems,” was previously a MIRI intern, designed the functional programming language Coconut, and has done software engineering work at G...
How students will lead the alternative protein revolution | Amy Huang
March 09, 2021 09:30 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBIndustrial animal agriculture sits at the intersection of many of the most pressing challenges facing human and non-human animal kind. To alleviate these pressures in the wake of rising global meat demand, we must accelerate the development of alternative proteins that compete with their conventional animal counterparts on the basis of taste, price, and convenience. Students are uniquely positioned to drive this food system transformation by influencing some of the most powerful institutions...
CEA strategy update | Max Dalton & Joan Gass
March 05, 2021 09:30 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBMax Dalton (Executive Director) and Joan Gass (Managing Director) from the Centre for Effective Altruism provide an update on CEA’s movement building strategy and answer questions from the audience. Centre for Effective Altruism, or CEA, is an organization whose mission is to build a community of students and professionals acting on EA principles, by creating and sustaining high-quality discussion spaces. CEA believes that by connecting students and young professionals with relevant experts...
80,000 Hours: Key Ideas with Ben Todd
March 02, 2021 09:30 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MB80,000 Hours is a non-profit that provides research and support to help people switch into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Ben discusses the most useful things they’ve learned so far. Ben Todd managed 80,000 Hours while it grew from a lecture, to a student society, to the organisation it is today. Before 80,000 Hours, he was the first undergraduate to intern as an analyst at a top investment fund. He has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, and ha...
How I think students should orient to AI safety | Buck Shlegeris
February 26, 2021 09:30 - 14 minutes - 9.78 MBBuck argues that students should engage with AI safety by trying to actually assess the arguments and the safety proposals. He claims that this is doable and useful. Buck Shlegeris is a researcher at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Buck works to make the future good for sentient beings; at the moment he believes that working on existential risk from artificial intelligence is my best bet for doing this. This talk was taken from EA Student Summit 2020. Click here to watch the t...
SCI Foundation: deworming done differently | Katie Fantaguzzi
February 23, 2021 09:30 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBSCI Foundation has been selected by GiveWell as one of its most effective charities every year since 2009. How does SCI reach and improve the lives of the poorest of the poor? What is unique about this organisation’s approach and outsized impact? Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Advisor Katie Fantaguzzi discusses SCI’s progress toward its vision to eliminate preventable disease. This talk was taken from EA Global Asia and Pacific 2020. Click here to watch the talk with the PowerP...
Global Health and Development Career Stories | Nikita Patel
February 19, 2021 09:30 - 7 minutes - 5.06 MBNikita co-founded Fortify Health, a wheat flour fortification initiative based in India, with Brendan Eappen in 2017. They launched Fortify Health with a seed grant and support from what was to become Charity Entrepreneurship, and have since received two GiveWell incubation grants to scale up wheat flour fortification in Maharashtra and West Bengal, India. Nikita previously worked in communications at Malaria Consortium, and has also been a Research and Outreach Intern at the Centre for Effe...
Getting a career in global development | Tony Senanayake
February 16, 2021 09:30 - 24 minutes - 17 MBAre you thinking about how to practically pursue a career with an effective altruism aligned organization but do not come from a traditional background? Tony has lived many lives including as a management consultant, lawyer and now global development practitioner. Tony discusses the role that active experimentation has had in shaping his current world view as an effective altruist. This talk was taken from EA Student Summit 2020. Click here to watch the talk with the PowerPoint presentation.
Getting a career in global development | Tony Senanayake | EA Student Summit
February 16, 2021 09:30 - 25 minutes - 28.9 MBAre you thinking about how to practically pursue a career with an effective altruism aligned organization but do not come from a traditional background? Tony has lived many lives including as a management consultant, lawyer and now global development practitioner. Tony discusses the role that active experimentation has had in shaping his current world view … Getting a career in global development | Tony Senanayake | EA Student Summit Read More »
Building a strong community through effective altruism groups | Catherine Low
February 12, 2021 09:30 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBCatherine shares the Centre for Effective Altruism’s latest thinking about the key role that EA groups play in building our community, suggests possible goals for groups, and outlines the support available to groups if you’re currently organising a group or keen to learn more about how to start one. Catherine Low is a Groups Support Contractor for Center for Effective Altruism. Catherine provides support to effective altruism groups around the world. Before joining CEA, she managed the Stud...
Doing good as a student: tradeoffs and project ideas | Claire Zabel
February 09, 2021 09:30 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBClaire discusses different potential high-impact approaches to one’s time as a student, and the tradeoffs between them, such as pursuing opportunities to gain career capital vs. doing directly impactful research. She focuses on the conditions under which she thinks students should and shouldn’t try to do community building and high-impact projects as students, and some particular project options she thinks are potentially promising for some students, largely from a longtermist perspective. ...
Which cause to work on? | Kit Harris
February 05, 2021 09:30 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBThis is a talk for people who want to figure out which cause to work on and are just getting started in doing so. Kit Harris leads on grant investigations and researches promising fields at Longview Philanthropy. He also writes about our recommendations and research for our philanthropists. Prior to focusing on high-impact philanthropic work, Kit worked as a credit derivatives trader with J.P. Morgan. During that time, he donated the majority of his income to high-impact charities. Kit hold...
WANBAM: Our successes, challenges, and opportunities to get involved | Kathryn Mecrow-Flynn
February 02, 2021 09:30 - 26 minutes - 18 MBKathryn Mecrow-Flynn, the Founder and CEO of WANBAM, discusses the lessons learnt during WANBAM’s first year of operation. She talks about the opportunities for getting involved and the possibilities for similar mentorship schemes in the community. Founded in 2019, WANBAM connects and supports a global network of women, trans people of any gender, and non-binary people interested in effective altruism through mentorship. This talk was taken from EA Global Asia and Pacific 2020. Click here ...
Dual moral obligations and international cooperation against global catastrophic risks | Jenny Xiao
January 29, 2021 09:30 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBThe fight against global catastrophic risks (GCRs) requires international cooperation, yet it is often challenging to foster genuine collaboration among different countries. Jenny Xiao, a PhD student at Columbia University, reconceptualizes international cooperation decisions as a tradeoff between “dual moral obligations” towards the nation and humanity as a whole. How countries think about this tradeoff shapes their willingness to contribute to collective efforts against GCRs. This talk wa...
Fireside chat | Peter Singer
January 26, 2021 09:30 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBIn this episode, Peter and Wanyi have a brief conversation about the direction of EA, movement building strategies, and how to feel about people who do not donate money. Peter Singer has written, co-authored, edited or co-edited more than 40 books, including Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, The Life You Can Save, and The Most Good You Can Do. His writings have inspired both the animal rights movement and effective altruism, and he is the founder of the charity The Life You Can Save. Th...
Using “Back of the Envelope Calculations” (BOTECs) to prioritize interventions | Zachary Robinson
January 22, 2021 09:30 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBZach talks about why, when, and how to use “Back Of The Envelope Calculations” (BOTECs) to inform altruistic decision-making and walks through an example to demonstrate key concepts. Zachary Robinson is a research fellow at open philanthropy. Open Philanthropy is an organization whose mission is to give as effectively as they can and share their findings openly so that anyone can build on their work. Through research and grantmaking, Open Philanthropy hopes to learn how to make philanthropy...
Expansion of animal advocacy and concern for wild animal suffering in India | Aditya SK
January 19, 2021 09:30 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBAditya examines ways to expand animal advocacy in India; especially concern and research about wild animal suffering which has great potential for reducing aggregate suffering. Given the historically positive attitude of the Indian cultural and legal systems towards non-human animals, strategic outreach to advocates, academics and policy-makers by organizations like Animal Ethics could potentially influence structural changes to reduce the suffering of sentient beings in the wild. Aditya is...
Decoupling: a technique for reducing bias | David Manley
January 15, 2021 09:30 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBOvercoming confirmation bias in our thinking requires decoupling: evaluating the strength of new evidence independently from our prior views. David explains how to implement some easy cognitive techniques that have been shown to help us successfully decouple; and how even informal decoupling approximates Bayesian reasoning. David Manley is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research has been mainly about semantics, ontology, probability, and e...
Outlook on the emerging field of wild animal welfare research | Michelle Graham and Oscar Horta
January 12, 2021 09:30 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBMichelle and Oscar discuss the wide variety of research areas relevant to wild animal welfare, the career and educational pathways to conducting such research, and how you can support the movement along the way. Michelle Graham is the Executive Director of Wild Animal Initiative. Her projects have included work on prioritizing and categorizing different interventions. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech; her dissertation concerns the movement behaviors ...
Mitigating catastrophic biorisks | Kevin Esvelt
January 08, 2021 09:30 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn a world now painfully aware of pandemics, with ever-increasing access to autonomous biological agents, how can we help channel society’s response to COVID-19 to minimize the risk of deliberate misuse? Using the challenge of securing DNA synthesis as an example, Kevin outlines the key norms and incentives governing biotechnology, lays out potential strategies for reform, and suggests ways in which thoughtful individuals might help safely and credibly discuss and mitigate biorisks without s...
Cellular agriculture: futureproofing our food systems for humans, animals and our planet | Bianca Le
January 05, 2021 09:30 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBBianca Le is the founder and director of Cellular Agriculture Australia. CAA is a nonprofit organization with the mission of improving human health and building resilient food systems in Australia. They do this by promoting and accelerating the development of healthy and sustainable animal proteins through research and development in cellular agriculture. Cellular agriculture is an emerging research field dedicated to developing food for our growing population without sacrificing our planet...