“The world is just waking up to the importance of existential risk. We have begun work on evaluating and evading the most significant threats, but have yest to scale this up in proportion to the significance of the problems. Consider the possibility of engineered pandemics, which shall soon see to be one of the largest risks facing humanity. The international body responsible for the continued prohibition of bioweapons has an annual budget of just $1.4 million - less than the average McDonalds’s restaurant”