Will Bradshaw

Exploring crucial considerations for decision-making around information hazards.

Will Bradshaw has been working with Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) on analysis of good decision-making protocols around information hazards. I trust the judgement of many of the people who have reviewed his work at FHI, and they expressed significant excitement about his work. I also personally think that work on better information hazard protocols is quite valuable, and that there has been relatively little public work on analyzing various sources of infohazards and how to navigate them, making marginal work quite valuable.

After we made this recommendation, Will reached out to us and asked whether it’s possible for him to broaden the grant to also include some immediate crisis response relating to the coronavirus pandemic, in particular trying to make sure that this crisis translates into more long-term work on biorisk. We decided that it would be fine for him to work on either this or his work on infohazards, depending on his judgement and the judgement of his collaborators.