Kevin Esvelt

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Kevin Esvelt is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 21, 2022 and November 28, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “MIT professor Kevin Esvelt talks about applying the security mindset to bioterrorism”; “Leader Kevin Esvelt has spoken at EA Global conferences”. It most often appears alongside #57, 80,000 Hours, Adam D’Angelo.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: November 21, 2022
  • Last seen: November 28, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

November 21, 2022 · Original source
How To Prevent The Next Pandemic: MIT professor Kevin Esvelt talks about applying the security mindset to bioterrorism. “At least 38,000 people can assemble an influenza virus from scratch. If people identify a new [pandemic] virus . . . then you just gave 30,000 people access to an agent that is of nuclear-equivalent lethality.”
November 28, 2023 · Original source
See here, Open Philanthropy is first-listed funder. Leader Kevin Esvelt has spoken at EA Global conferences and on 80,000 Hours