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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
 • Stephen D. Turner
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.
 • Stephen D. Turner
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
 • Stephen D. Turner
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.
 • Stephen D. Turner
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.
 • Stephen D. Turner
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.
 • Stephen D. Turner
Tiered Access for AIxBio Governance
Parallel proposals target training data and model access to reduce biosecurity risk
 • Stephen D. Turner
AI-Enabled Biological Design and the Risks of Synthetic Biology
Chapter 3 of the National Academies report on AIxBio: Biosecurity implications for what AI can and can't do in biology today.
 • Stephen D. Turner
Biological risk and the AI capability shift
Notes from the 2026 International AI Safety Report
 • Stephen D. Turner
Tacit Knowledge and Biosecurity
What's "tacit knowledge" in biosecurity, and is it really a barrier? A look at the 2025 RAND paper "Contemporary Foundation AI Models Increase…
 • Stephen D. Turner
Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards (Part 2)
Part 2 summarizing chapters from "Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards" from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on…
 • Stephen D. Turner
Contextual Distraction: RAG isn't a Seatbelt
A laboratory safety benchmark finds retrieval augmented generation (RAG) can make strong models worse.
 • Stephen D. Turner
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