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Ok, Doomer!Going ViralWelcome to “Going Viral”, the fourth episode of “Ok Doomer!” the podcast series by The European Leadership Network’s (ELN) New European Voices on Existential Risk (NEVER) network. Hosted by the ELN’s Policy and Impact Director, Jane Kinninmont, and the ELN’s Project and Communications Coordinator, Edan Simpson, this episode will examine the existential and global catastrophic threats posed by new biological technologies. Jane kicks off the episode in “What’s the Problem?” Where we also hear from Jasper Götting, a research fellow in the biosecurity team of Convergent Research and a member of our NEVER network, whose w...
2024-06-171h 16
PrioritätenJasper Götting über die Prävention Globaler Katastrophaler Biologischer Risiken und Far UV-CFür die erste Folge von Prioritäten sprach Stephan Dalügge mit dem Virologen Jasper Götting über die Prävention künftiger Pandemien. Die beiden haben sich insbesondere auf globale katastrophale biologische Risiken konzentriert, kurz GCBRs (aus dem Englischen Global Catastrophic Biological Risks). Das sind solche Pandemien, die noch mindestens eine Größenordnung mehr Todesopfer als Covid-19 fordern könnten. Jasper konzentriert sich in seiner Arbeit für die amerikanische Metascience-Organisation Convergent Research insbesondere auf das Thema Luftdesinfektion durch Far UV-C-Strahlung, worum es in der zweiten Hälfte des Gesprächs geht, nachdem es in der ersten Hälfte darum...
2023-05-071h 52
EA TalksBiosecurity: A Technical Perspective | Anemone Franz, Jasper Götting | EAGxBerlin 22COVID-19 has demonstrated the disruptive potential of pandemics. But global catastrophic biological risks – the ways in which biological agents could cause civilisational catastrophes or extinction – are even more concerning than history's most disastrous pandemics. So, what can we do to prevent them? In this talk, Anemone and Jasper will explore promising technological interventions against catastrophic biological risks and outline possible contributing ways.Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways to do the most good possible, whether through charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Global conferences are gatherings for EAs to m...
2023-02-2139 min
The Transformative Ideas Podcast#19: Viruses, Pandemics and Effective Altruism with Jasper GöttingIn this episode, we are joined by Jasper Götting, PhD Candidate at the Institute of Virology of the Hannover Medical School, where his research focuses on the sequencing and monitoring of viruses.
We discuss what a virus is, the differences between RNA and DNA viruses, how we are all infected by Herpes viruses, and why this matters for organ transplants. We delve into flu viruses and corona viruses and some of their elegant and dangerous features, monitoring in the context of pandemics, virological weather forecasts, pandemic risk, manmade pandemics vs. natural pandemics, the risks of gain-of-function r...
2021-09-151h 50