A biosecurity playbook for AI companies
A practical playbook of safeguards AI companies can adopt to reduce biorisk from their models.
Lennart Justen
Physics to biology at the MIT Media Lab and Broad Institute. Interested in detecting emerging pathogens earlier and controlling their spread in the built environment. AIxBio sometimes.
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No, there are not hundreds of cloud labs in biology
In a recent appearance on Sam Harris’s Making Sense podcast (#463, “Privatizing the Apocalypse”), Rob Reid claimed that there are “dozens, maybe a hundred” cloud labs and suggested that cloud labs are a major emerging source of biorisk.
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In a new preprint, I track LLM performance on biology benchmarks over the last three years, finding that models have improved dramatically, now outperforming human expert baselines on several of the most challenging benchmarks.