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Coefficient Giving's Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness team is launching a new Request for Proposals to support work aimed at preventing engineered biological threats from emerging and improving our response to these threats should prevention fail.

Applications start with a simple expression of interest form (≤500 words), with a submission deadline of May 11 2026 at 11:59pm PT.

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We expect that the coming years will see unprecedented progress in AI and biotechnology. While the ability of AI systems to improve human health could be transformative, these same advances may increase existential risk via multiple pathways: AI could lower barriers for bad actors pursuing novel biological weapons, and increasingly capable AI systems may themselves leverage biotechnology in harmful ways. Separately, biotech advances could also introduce catastrophic risks from even well-intentioned actors—for example, through the creation of mirror bacteria.

We feel these problems are increasingly urgent, and our team is looking to spend more and spend faster as a result. (We expect to direct >$100 million in grants this year.)

To that end, we’re interested in funding ambitious projects in the following categories:

• Transmission suppression: Enhance society's capacity to respond to global [...]

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First published:
April 1st, 2026

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RvK9sEGoe46co8H4L/coefficient-giving-is-seeking-proposals-for-biosecurity

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