Build a team that designs persuasive media demonstrations of AI-enabled biological risk for presentation to policymakers and other relevant decision makers.

## Context
Many important biosecurity interventions are downstream of policy and the decisions of individuals with senior roles across the national security apparatus, frontier labs, and large businesses. People in these positions are often bottlenecked from action by lack of awareness of the threat. While reading about a threat is helpful, visuals from media are more persuasive. Demos have moved policymakers before, even in biosecurity specifically, but few are specializing in designing these media resources well and on a sustained basis, which is important as capabilities evolve.

## **Target End-State**
Within ~6 months of a founder starting, a standing "AI-bio demo team" with credible biology expertise has either delivered material directly in briefings to senior policymakers or provided material to leading think tanks and lobbyists to do so. This team has a strong understanding of how to handle information hazards.

## **Owner Profile**
This can be led by a driven generalist with the ability to hire out expertise.
The ideal owner profile:
- Strong media background, especially involving translating technical material to a non-expert audience.
- Experience working with and communicating to policymakers.
- Biology expertise, or the ability to recruit for it.
- Existing policymaker, think tank, or lobbyist network.
- Strong judgment on information hazards, that is, able to decide what might be dangerous to share.

## **Initial Scoping**
**First 3 Months**
- Talk to existing advocates, like [CivAI](https://civai.org/).
- Run a hiring process and build a small team with designers and technical experts.
- Develop information hazard guidelines for the team.
- Map priority audiences.

**Key Questions**
- Who are the highest-leverage audiences?
- Who should deliver the message?

## **Funders and Partners**
**How much money is behind this?**
A [wave of philanthropic capital](https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy) is soon to be available for founders looking to work on important problems like biosecurity. The OpenAI Foundation, for instance, is part of an estimated $37–100B/year in new AI-lab-driven giving. Existing philanthropic capital is also significant. Coefficient Giving alone deploys over $100M per year to biosecurity.

**Potential Funders**
[Coefficient Giving](http://coefficientgiving.org)
[BlueDot Impact](http://bluedot.org)

**Potential Partners and Stakeholders**
[National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology](https://www.biotech.senate.gov/)
[Institute for Progress](http://ifp.org)
[RAND](https://www.rand.org/)

## Learn More
[Coefficient Giving — "Defenses in Depth" project list](https://defensesindepth.bio/10-big-projects-for-reducing-bio-x-risk/)

## Interested in building this?
Contact: Olivia Scharfman, [olivia@bluedot.org](mailto:olivia@bluedot.org).


Build a team that designs persuasive media demonstrations of AI-enabled biological risk for presentation to policymakers and other relevant decision makers.

AI-Bio Media Demonstrations