A playbook for field strategy - by Dewi Erwan

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At BlueDot, we’ve used this playbook to design draft strategies for specific biosecurity interventions, including UV air disinfection, DNA synthesis screening, and pandemic early warning systems. These strategies inform where we direct top talent and which new projects we help launch. A field is a community of individuals and organisations working to address a shared problem. In our case, the fields we operate in are trying to mitigate risks from AI and synthetic biology. These fields are under-resourced and confused. Without a strategy for what we’re trying to achieve and how we’re going to achieve it, we risk producing elegant answers to pointless questions, focusing our scarce resources on unimportant problems, and failing to protect humanity from harm. It’s nobody’s job to produce field-level strategy — most actors in the community focus on their own organization or their own role. Many “strategies” that people do produce are shallow, one-off wishlists that don’t get distributed to

At BlueDot, we’ve used this playbook to design draft strategies for specific biosecurity interventions, including UV air disinfection, respiratory protection for critical workers, DNA synthesis screening, and pandemic early warning systems. These strategies inform where we direct top talent and which new projects we help launch. A field is a community of individuals and organisations working to address a shared problem. In our case, the fields we operate in are trying to mitigate risks from AI and synthetic biology. These fields are under-resourced and confused. Without a strategy for what…

A playbook for field strategy - by Dewi Erwan

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