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Global Shield maintains a database of policy ideas extracted from academic articles and reports relating to global catastrophic risk. Search this database below.


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Pandemics
Identify and rapidly increase financing for national pandemic preparedness across the public health and agricultural sectors
Biotechnology Pandemics
Identify and arrange for the stockpiling and delivery of essential components
Artificial intelligence
Host competitions to make it easy to measure progress in such domains
Solar storm
Hold emergency meeting to assess the space weather data
Artificial intelligence
Have authorized entities that make specific laws applicable only to AI
Artificial intelligence
Have a more detailed picture of the state of security-relevant AI capabilities that are visible in public, open source research and code
Pandemics
Generate a voluntary ASHRAE standard on clean air quality
Artificial intelligence
Fund research into the maximal degree of autonomy for intelligent systems
Artificial intelligence
Fund interdisciplinaryresearch projects (comprising philosophy, neuroscience and computer science) to understand machine consciousness.
Artificial intelligence
Fund greater capacity for assessing progress in AI, its applications and impacts on society
All-hazard
Form an expert advisory panel through the cooperation of various futures research institutions and think tanks
Biotechnology
Form a Biosecurity Leadership Council
Biotechnology Pandemics
Forge a new agreement narrowly targeting the identification and associated proliferation of pandemic-class agents
All-hazard
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to resume its previous Civil Defense mission to ensure resilience to food supplies
Nuclear weapons
Extend New START for five years
Artificial intelligence
Estimate the computing power involved in each AI project.
Artificial intelligence
Establish the public procurement of innovation in artificial intelligence
All-hazard EMP Solar storm
Establish black start recovery options
Artificial intelligence
Establish a UN AI Research Organisation (UNAIRO)
All-hazard
Establish a government office for risk
All-hazard
Establish a Government Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and an associated unit.
Artificial intelligence
Establish a Global Task Force on AGI to monitor, delay and enforce safety guidelines
All-hazard
Ensure the National Security Risk Assessment captures high-uncertainty risks.
Artificial intelligence
Ensure policymakers are aware of the potential harms of AI systems that are being developed and deployed
All-hazard
Ensure health and surveillance data is processed to use efficiently to make informed decisions.
Artificial intelligence
Develop tools to analyze and monitor deployed AI systems for robustness, bias, ‘dual use’ capabilities, and other important features by the government
Pandemics
Develop self-spreading vaccines to prevent the spread of diseases in animals and humans.
Pandemics
Develop regional coordination systems to respond to pandemics
Pandemics
Develop programs and efforts that allocate significant resources to RNA viral threats and other microbes
Pandemics
Develop oral vaccines to reduce vaccine development time, costs and ease distribution.
Pandemics
Develop mRNA vaccines to reduce vaccine development time.
Pandemics
Develop improved robotics and telehealth capabilities to give more people access to treatment.
Artificial intelligence
Develop hardware security features for AI through industry and academic collaborating.
All-hazard EMP Solar storm
Develop hardened microgrid infrastructure
Biotechnology
Develop effective defences to biological threats through the proposed UK Institute for Biological Security.
Nuclear weapons
Develop confidence-building agreements and mechanisms
Artificial intelligence
Develop and implement world-wide safety standards for AI research
Artificial intelligence
Develop an international AI research organisation
Artificial intelligence
Develop an EU AI Charter
Artificial intelligence
Develop a traceable log of steps for organizations developing AI to follow.
Develop a robust conflict resolution mechanism for the effective governance of outer space.
Solar storm
Develop a national space weather strategy and action plan
Pandemics
Develop a global stockpile of portable easy to use ventilators.
Artificial intelligence
Develop a Global AI charter by the EU
Biotechnology Pandemics
Detect all threats with untargeted deep sequencing
Biotechnology Pandemics
Deny access to pandemic blueprints
Artificial intelligence
Create specific technical roles around AI in key departments
All-hazard
Create legislative houses for future generations
Artificial intelligence
Create a task force to research options for conducting and funding third party auditing of AI systems.
Artificial intelligence
Create a pool of machine-learning-relevant computational resources to provide free of charge for socially beneficial applications and AI safety, security, and alignment research.
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