Nathan Ashby
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Nathan Ashby is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 04, 2022 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Biosecurity And Existential Safety Lobbying In Australia (?/10) Nathan Ashby”; “Nathan Ashby, Austen Erickson, and Susan Pennings have founded the Institute For Effective Policy”; “we funded Nathan Ashby to do this”. It most often appears alongside ACX Grants, Manifold Markets, 1DaySooner.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: November 04, 2022
- Last seen: October 13, 2025
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Related Pages
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- ACX Grants (3 shared issues)
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- Manifold Markets (3 shared issues)
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- 1DaySooner (2 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- African School of Economics (2 shared issues)
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- Andrew Martin (2 shared issues)
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- Anton Makiievskyi (2 shared issues)
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- Austin Chen (2 shared issues)
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- Australia (2 shared issues)
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- Calvin French-Owen (2 shared issues)
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- Charter Cities Institute (2 shared issues)
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- Clara Collier (2 shared issues)
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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.
12: Biosecurity And Existential Safety Lobbying In Australia (?/10) Nathan Ashby, Austen Erickson, and Susan Pennings have founded the Institute For Effective Policy. They’re currently working on getting an amendment to the $4.5 billion Emergency Response Fund Amendment (Disaster Ready Fund) Bill to include funding for longer-term risks, as well as helping build a broader and more unified Australian EA policy community. As a result of their work highlighting long term catastrophic risks, the government has invited their group to participate in a national summit on risk resilience
Inline links: Institute For Effective Policy
Greg Sadler, $65,000, for policy advocacy in Australia. Last ACX Grants, we funded Nathan Ashby to do this. Nathan and his team were able to get some significant victories, influencing government policy on pandemic preparedness, charitable tax deductions, and AI safety. This time around, he recommends his colleague Greg Sadler at Good Ancestors to continue his work. You can read more about their agenda here.
Inline links: Good Ancestors, here
Greg Sadler, $65K, for Good Ancestors Australia. Our first grants round in 2021 supported ACX commenter Nathan Ashby beginning policy work in Australia. His work eventually evolved (it’s complicated) into GAA -now one of Australia’s most influential AI safety organizations, working with the public, MPs and their staffers to incorporate the x-risk/alignment perspective into Australian AI policy and legislation. We are excited to fund their continued operation. Australia is also a key base for building influence in tiny Pacific Island nations; although these may not have cutting-edge AI industries, they collectively form a powerful bloc in one-country-one-vote forums like the UN.
Inline links: Good Ancestors Australia