#224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Published: October 2, 2025
Duration: 2:31:11
Conventional wisdom is that safeguarding humanity from the worst biological risks — microbes optimised to kill as many as possible — is difficult bordering on impossible, making bioweapons humanity’s single greatest vulnerability. Andrew Snyder-Beattie thinks conventional wisdom could be wrong.
Andrew’s job at Open Philanthropy is to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to protect as much of humanity as possible in the worst-case scenarios — those with fatality rates near 100% and the collapse of technological civilisation a live possibility.
Video, full transcript, and links to learn more: https://80k.info/asb
As Andrew lays out, t...