• #78 – Jacob Trefethen on Global Health R&D

  • Sep 8 2024
  • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
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#78 – Jacob Trefethen on Global Health R&D

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  • Jacob Trefethen oversees Open Philanthropy’s science and science policy programs. He was a Henry Fellow at Harvard University, and has a B.A. from the University of Cambridge.

    You can find links and a transcript at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes/trefethen

    In this episode we talked about open source the risks and benefits of open source AI models. We talk about:

    • Life-saving health technologies which probably won't exist in 5 years (without a concerted effort) — like a widely available TB vaccine, and bugs which stop malaria spreading
    • How R&D for neglected diseases works —
    • How much does the world spend on it?
    • How do drugs for neglected diseases go from design to distribution?
    • No-brainer policy ideas for speeding up global health R&D
    • Comparing health R&D to public health interventions (like bed nets)
    • Comparing the social returns to frontier (‘Progress Studies’) to global health R&D
    • Why is there no GiveWell-equivalent for global health R&D?
    • Won't AI do all the R&D for us soon?

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