AI

August 2026 links #2

Notes on AI, AI in the lab, AI and biology, AI and biosecurity, AI and writing.

Aug 27 • Stephen D. Turner

August 2026 links #1

Aug 13 • Stephen D. Turner

Codon usage bias for prose

Anthropic is now watermarking Claude's output. The mechanism is statistical (not lexical) and a detection hit doesn't mean what most people will assume.

Aug 11 • Stephen D. Turner

I'm Hiring: Postdoc in AI + Biosecurity

I have a grant starting in September to set up a new AIxBio / biosecurity program, and I'm hiring a postdoc in AI biosecurity evaluation and study…

Aug 10 • Stephen D. Turner

July 2026 Links

Jul 30 • Stephen D. Turner

Screening for Function, not just Sequence

A proposed successor to IARPA's FunGCAT program

Jul 27 • Stephen D. Turner

Prompt injection defenses open a biosecurity gap

The low-authority treatment of external content that helps LLMs resist hijacking with prompt injection also defeats biosecurity warnings built into…

Jul 21 • Stephen D. Turner

Benchmarking AI Biosecurity Refusals

Refusal ≠ safety. What 3 recent evals reveal about risk discrimination, over-refusal, and concealed hazards Bonus: we could do some interesting economic…

Jul 20 • Stephen D. Turner

AI Dry July: Aborted

Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of). 5.2k words, 23 minutes reading time.

Jul 18 • Stephen D. Turner

Closing my tabs, July 10, 2026

Off switches for dual-use knowledge, the PhD admissions drop, a Brown cheating mess, the end of reading, AI labs at the bench, and planning for a "Bio…

Jul 10 • Stephen D. Turner

Fewer Rungs on the Ladder

Automating the analyst's work doesn't turn analysts into principal scientists

Jul 6 • Stephen D. Turner

Five things (July 2, 2026): AIxBio, NIH, QED

GeneBench-Pro, LLM agents and biological tools, the volition premium, NIH’s 235 flagged words, QED’s top 1%

Jul 2 • Stephen D. Turner

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