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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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Fewer Rungs on the Ladder
Automating the analyst's work doesn't turn analysts into principal scientists
Jul 6
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Stephen D. Turner
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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
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Stephen D. Turner
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Test Driving Claude Science
Anthropic released Claude Science today. I tried it out for an AIxBio literature review and for an analysis using the IUCN Red List API with R.
Jun 30
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Stephen D. Turner
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A Claude skill for pre-submission peer review
Open-source skill to use Claude + Consensus for pre-submission mock peer review backed by citations to published, peer-reviewed literature.
Jun 30
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Stephen D. Turner
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Six Things: June 18, 2026
Cal Newport on doom trolling, SecureBio's benchmark dashboard, RAND on biodesign audit trails, the anti-scaling law in drug development, local models…
Jun 18
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Stephen D. Turner
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Policy on the AI Exponential
Another (short) essay by Dario Amodei
Jun 16
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Stephen D. Turner
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Open tabs (June 12, 2026)
TBR in AIxBio, AIxEdu, AIxLabor, AIxWriting, and other essays & papers
Jun 12
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Stephen D. Turner
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Five Things (June 5, 2026): AIxBio, and a Red Alert for US Science
Open-closed model gap, evals in the biorisk hierarchy, DARPA AI Forge, refusal benchmarks, OpenAI’s Rosalind Biodefense
Jun 5
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Stephen D. Turner
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