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This grant page is relevant to AI safety adjacent work, as biosecurity and pandemic preparedness overlap with catastrophic risk reduction priorities shared by the AI safety community; useful context for understanding Open Philanthropy's broad existential risk funding portfolio.
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This Open Philanthropy grant page documents funding provided to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) for its biosecurity program. NTI works to reduce global catastrophic biological risks through policy advocacy, technical analysis, and international engagement. The grant reflects Open Philanthropy's focus on biosecurity as a key global catastrophic risk area.
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- •Open Philanthropy provided funding to NTI's biosecurity program to reduce global biological catastrophic risks.
- •NTI is a prominent policy and advocacy organization focused on nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological threats.
- •Biosecurity is a major focus area for Open Philanthropy due to its potential for civilizational-scale harm.
- •The grant supports policy-level interventions rather than direct technical AI safety research.
- •This reflects broader EA and longtermist funding strategies targeting pandemic preparedness and bioweapons prevention.
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
We support work to guard against catastrophic biological risks, especially ones from advanced technology.
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Disease outbreaks have been responsible for some of the deadliest events in human history. Over five years, COVID-19 caused tens of millions of excess deaths and shrank the global economy by tens of trillions of dollars. But that was far from a worst-case scenario: advances in biotechnology and AI could make future biological risks even more severe than natural diseases. These risks could be among the greatest threats to society — capable of derailing centuries of progress or even causing human extinction.
Since our work on biosecurity began — five years before COVID-19 — we’ve been supporting research, technology, and policy initiatives aimed at preventing these risks and mitigating their consequences, with a particular focus on technological risks. Access to the right tools and knowledge could save millions of lives in future catastrophic biological events.
Our grantees’ work includes:
Developing widespread affordable respiratory protection to protect healthcare staff and other essential workers in the event of a pandemic.
Advancing defensive technologies like metagenomic sequencing to detect pathogens and Far-UVC light to disinfect shared spaces.
Improving governance and security, through stronger international norms on biological weapons, dual-use research oversight, mirror bacteria , and DNA synthesis screening.
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Request for Proposals: Biosecurity
We want to support work aimed at preventing engineered biological threats from emerging and improving our response to these threats should prevention fail. We’re eager to fund
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