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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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Videos from NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI
Recordings of talks from the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI are now available online.
Feb 24
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Stephen D. Turner
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Press the Red Button, Dave
A small study at LANL has real-world biosecurity relevance: evaluating whether AI can transfer tacit laboratory skill to novices.
Feb 23
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Stephen D. Turner
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