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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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Five Things (May 23, 2026): AI in life sciences
Jassi Pannu on AI and biosecurity, RAND/Helena AIxBio biosecurity mitigations, Blekhman on genomics AI, Nature’s AI scientists week, AI in peer review.
May 22
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Stephen D. Turner
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Five Things: May 7, 2026
BioMysteryBench, the Mythos vetting U-turn, USC’s $200M AI bet, Yihui Xie on AI coding, NIH Highlighted Topics
May 7
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Stephen D. Turner
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This week in AIxBio (April 30, 2026)
Biosecurity risks from chatbots, $500M for cell-modeling data, AI-designed recombinases hit pharma, FDA streams trial data in real time, and a…
Apr 30
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Stephen D. Turner
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AI is learning to engineer biology. Our safety systems aren't keeping up.
Republishing my recent article from The Conversation
Apr 10
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Stephen D. Turner
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AI-Assisted Customer Screening for DNA Synthesis Orders
A new preprint shows AI can handle legitimacy verification at a fraction of the cost.
Apr 2
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Stephen D. Turner
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Creating Enforceable Biosecurity Standards for Nucleic Acid Providers
A new paper from Raytheon BBN and IBBIS: Sometimes “good enough” consensus today beats waiting for perfect clarity that may never come.
Mar 30
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Stephen D. Turner
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Importance of Data in Al-Enabled Biological Models
Chapter 5 of the National Academies report on AIxBio: Biological Data as Strategic Infrastructure
Mar 29
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Would data access controls have slowed the COVID-19 response?
Proposed biological data governance and access control frameworks might face their toughest test during the crises they aim to prevent
Mar 18
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Stephen D. Turner
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From Protocol to Pipette: What Two New RCTs Tell Us About AI Biosecurity Risk
LLMs uplift novice performance on computational biology tasks, while their effect in physical laboratories remains modest and task-dependent.
Mar 11
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Stephen D. Turner
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Frontier LLMs can design functional DNA sequences for benchtop synthesis
A look at a new RAND report: Bridging the Digital to Physical Divide - Evaluating LLM Agents on Benchtop DNA Acquisition
Mar 2
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Stephen D. Turner
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Dario Amodei's "The Adolescence of Technology"
A risk-side companion to “Machines of Loving Grace” and a biosecurity primer on AI safety for people who tuned out.
Mar 1
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Stephen D. Turner
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