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#27 - Dr Tom Inglesby on careers and policies that reduce global catastrophic biological risks

80,000 Hours Podcast

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How to Prevent Pandemics

Raising consciousness that extraordinary pandemics are possible, either through natural emergence or through technological risk is a pretty big assignment. Getting people more involved who are willing to think about that in a responsible way would be good. It's going to be hard for us to come up with universal safeguards that protect us from every pathway and every organization in the world. But we can create a mix of safeguards combined with raised scientific consciousness, scientific norms, people who are aware that their powerful technology could be misused.

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