AI

AI advice and expert judgment

Analysts adopt agents’ assigned preferences and still felt ownership of the result.

Nov 1 • Stephen D. Turner

October 2026 links

Tacit knowledge, AI and biosecurity, field building, chat with DNA, Nextflow, AI in academia and science, R package development, peer review

Oct 30 • Stephen D. Turner

Anthropic is not pitching Normal Technology

Anthropic’s S-1 prospectus describes ambitions for biology that go well beyond helping scientists write code and summarize papers.

Oct 27 • Stephen D. Turner

Podcast Recommendations Oct 2026

Down to a Science, UVA SDS Data Points, AI Exchange at UVA. One episode recommendation from each.

Oct 25 • Stephen D. Turner

AI Reviews Might Beat Human Peer Reviews

A limited demonstration that AI reviews can do the job of human reviewers at improving papers. Deciding what to publish still needs an accountable…

Oct 24 • Stephen D. Turner

I’m Skeptical of AI Disclosures

800 words, 3.5 minutes reading time

Oct 17 • Stephen D. Turner

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Biosecurity, Volume II

Volume II of a special research topic in AI and Biosecurity

Oct 15 • Stephen D. Turner

AI in the workplace vs. AI in education

Quoting Dan Willingham: Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well.

Oct 11 • Stephen D. Turner

September 2026 links

Academic life & discourse, biosecurity, AIxBio, creativity, peer review, Thomas Jefferson

Sep 29 • Stephen D. Turner

My relationship with AI is changing

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

Sep 26 • Stephen D. Turner

AI + Biosecurity in 4 minutes

I got four minutes on live TV news to take on an important but nuanced topic.

Sep 22 • Stephen D. Turner

Three biological data bills, with OpenAI support

Standardizing federal biological data to maintain US competitiveness in AI and biotechnology

Sep 17 • Stephen D. Turner

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