Dr. Richard Moulange

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #241 – Richard Moulange on how now AI codes viable genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong? · 31 Mar 2026 podcast

suddenly you are much less effective at your ability to respond to other concurrent threats, maybe kinetic threats from conventional military forces.

The same with essential workers.

If half of all the people you employ to transport and deliver food around the country are in hospital at the same time,

suddenly aspects of how society functions and how society can respond to other extreme risks breaks down.

And so this is where I'm most excited about this sort of multi-strain stockpile idea, because I think it is the only thing that makes sure we can keep society going

in the most extreme cases, and in fact, deter adversaries from even trying something, because then we can say, no, if we've got a multistrain influenza vaccine, not only there are benefits for ongoing flu seasons from year to year, but also we can say, if you try and engineer any flu against us, we are confident that yes, some people will be sick,

But our armed forces will be pre-vaccinated, and then we can boost them again, and they will be able to respond, and our essential workers.

So everyone else will lock down, but we can get food, we can get medicine to them.

Society will continue functioning.

Yeah.

Um...

There's just been such exciting work in the last few years.

Shockingly, also from the Baker Lab, David Baker and his colleagues, they really are.

And so actually, I think this is where funders in our space, so then Open France bringing out Coefficient Giving,

Disclosure, who do, yeah, I think partially fund Center for Long-Term Resilience, they identified this years ago and invested in the Baker Lab and a few other labs to build universal vaccines.

Basically, engineering has got much better, but also we've just had AI.

AI has just come on board and is starting to revolutionize lots and lots of subdomains of biological science.

We've already had the structure prediction moment.

We've basically solved that.

Let's make the next one we do vaccine design.

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