# Pandemic Preparation is AI Safety

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> Published: 2026-09-17 11:17:01+00:00

I am not a big fan of the “now more than ever” post, which interprets recent events to support—surprise!—something the writer already believed. And yet…is it not obvious that AI risk increases the value of pandemic preparation? If COVID began with a laboratory leak—plausible, though unproven—then a research accident has already killed millions. Whatever its […]

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