Our mission is to place the mind as a central priority in human affairs. To carry out this mission, we research both human and machine mindware. However, our mission extends beyond research. We also take action to save minds, which sometimes simply means saving lives.
In early 2020, as it became clear that millions of lives were threatened by SARS-CoV-2, we decided to focus our efforts on an open-source design of a vaccine that would be easy to produce and easy to administer. We thus created a new entity, the Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative (RaDVaC). Future pandemics continue to be a global threat, and RaDVaC will continue to focus on the development of tools to protect people against pathogens.
Mind First has been working together with RaDVaC to create AI systems to analyze biological threats and present options for neutralizing them. Our current work together is focused on generating even more rapid-response pathogen defenses than vaccines. We are using AI to repurpose existing drugs and generally recognized as safe (GRAS) compounds as antiviral prophylactics and therapeutics.