BASE Research at EA Global: New York City 2026

STEP (Specimen Transport for Epidemic Preparedness) in Liberia, West Africa

Improving sample transport (from clinics) and return of lab tests results (to clinics) through better coordination

Scaling adoption of synthesis screening outside the US and EU

An outreach campaign from IBBIS to rapidly increase adoption of effective synthesis screening tools during a critical regulatory window.

AI safety and biosecurity career series at Ahmadu Bello University.

Turning usually busy students into AI safety and biosecurity contributors in their final year.

safely.bio: Customer screening for DNA synthesis providers

Deploying customer screening software at DNA synthesis providers to reduce AI-enabled biothreats

Halogene Bio

Seeking seed funding to engineer resilience.

Safeguarding DNA Synthesis from Biological Risks Posed by Advanced AI

We will test whether circuits in protein language models can detect function-preserving redesigns of known toxins that evade homology-based DNA-synthesis screen

Fund Sentinel for Q1-2025

A foresight and emergency response team seeking to react fast to calamities

BioRAG-Guard: Poisoning Evals for Biological AI Agents

An open-source benchmark and defense toolkit for testing whether corrupted biological databases can hijack retrieval-augmented AI agents used in genomics, prote

Clean Indoor Air for Schools

Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom

Eradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents

Developing and commercializing an alternative to feeder rodents—tackling one of the most neglected and high-suffering forms of factory farming.

80,000 Hours

We provide research and support to help people move into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.

Building Effective Giving ecosystem in India

Funding circles and advisory to fund high impact non-profits

Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)

Expanding proven isolation techniques to high-risk capability domains in Mixture of Expert models

Philanthropic advising

Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects

Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure

Enabling rapid deployment of specialized engineering teams for critical AI safety evaluation projects worldwide

Defining dangerous DNA with the Sequence Biosecurity Risk Consortium (SBRC)

Defining which sequences are dangerous enough to screen for, so providers and regulators screen consistently

Continued development of Commec, IBBIS’s open-source DNA screening tool

Next year of Commec (the Common Mechanism), the free, open-source, globally-available DNA synthesis screening tool hosted by IBBIS

The Good Debate

Live-audience debates and digital media that develop talent, build fields and engage audiences—starting in Africa—around AI safety and other high-impact global