David Manheim works with academics and policymakers to reduce risks from future large-scale catastrophes. He is currently involved in understanding and building policy to mitigate large scale risks to humanity in different domains, focusing on biosecurity and artificial intelligence alignment, looking at both technical issues in risk evaluation and mitigation, and public policy and legislative approaches for reducing risks.
David is also a Superforecaster with Good Judgement Inc., and was one of the original superforecasters involved in the Good Judgement Project, winner of an IARPA competition for forecasting, and is a former top-100 Metaculus forecaster.