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AI & x-risk
Make the transition to transformative AI survivable.
Frontier AI is the one x-risk currently accelerating rather than slowing. The work is technical (interpretability, evals, corrigibility, sandboxed deployment) and institutional (governance, verification, international coordination). Aligned and corrigible AI unlocks most other quests on the leaderboard; misaligned AI forecloses them.
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4 mapped →Cell programming platform. Biosecurity Division runs metagenomic surveillance and pathogen detection at scale.
mRNA platform company. Pandemic preparedness via rapid vaccine development, plus pipeline in malaria, HIV, and rare disease.
Sentinel surveillance using metagenomic sequencing of wastewater to detect novel pathogens before they spread.
De-extinction and genetic engineering. Biosecurity adjacency via rapid genome editing and cold-chain logistics.