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Biosecurity

TagLast edit: 2 Apr 2022 19:06 UTC by Raemon

Tri­al­ing Far UVC and Gly­col Va­pors at BIDA

jefftk15 Aug 2025 2:20 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Offense-Defense Balance of Gene Drives

Maxwell Tabarrok27 Sep 2024 16:47 UTC
23 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

How Much Data From a Se­quenc­ing Run?

jefftk26 Jun 2025 2:30 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The AI Revolu­tion in Biology

Roman Leventov26 May 2024 9:30 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.cognitiverevolution.ai)

Scal­ing the NAO’s Stealth Pathogen Early-Warn­ing System

jefftk2 Apr 2025 13:28 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(naobservatory.org)

De­tec­tion of Asymp­tomat­i­cally Spread­ing Pathogens

jefftk5 Dec 2024 18:20 UTC
45 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Out-of-dis­tri­bu­tion Bioattacks

jefftk2 Dec 2023 12:20 UTC
66 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How has the to­tal amount of gain-of-func­tion re­search wor­ld­wide grown/​shrunk over time?

johnswentworth19 May 2022 15:57 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Defend­ing against hy­po­thet­i­cal moon life dur­ing Apollo 11

eukaryote7 Jan 2024 4:49 UTC
58 points
9 comments32 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into Biosecurity

jefftk2 Oct 2023 21:20 UTC
26 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why not con­strain wet­labs in­stead of AI?

Lone Pine21 Mar 2023 18:02 UTC
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Biose­cu­rity Cul­ture, Com­puter Se­cu­rity Culture

jefftk30 Aug 2023 16:40 UTC
103 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

En­hanc­ing biose­cu­rity with lan­guage mod­els: defin­ing re­search directions

mic26 Mar 2024 12:30 UTC
12 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Se­quenc­ing Intro

jefftk29 Aug 2022 17:50 UTC
39 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Public Weights?

jefftk2 Nov 2023 2:50 UTC
49 points
19 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Four Pillars: A Hy­poth­e­sis for Coun­ter­ing Catas­trophic Biolog­i­cal Risk

ASB2 Oct 2025 20:20 UTC
9 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(defensesindepth.bio)

In­ter­cept ar­ti­cle about lab accidents

ChristianKl7 Nov 2022 21:10 UTC
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(theintercept.com)

Joseph Bloom on choos­ing AI Align­ment over bio, what many as­piring re­searchers get wrong, and more (in­ter­view)

17 Sep 2023 18:45 UTC
27 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Case Rates to Se­quenc­ing Reads

jefftk21 Sep 2022 2:00 UTC
15 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Moder­ately Skep­ti­cal of “Risks of Mir­ror Biol­ogy”

Davidmanheim20 Dec 2024 12:57 UTC
31 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(substack.com)

Real biosafety is so­cially inconvenient

ChristianKl2 Apr 2022 18:50 UTC
33 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

[Linkpost] “In­ten­sity and fre­quency of ex­treme novel epi­demics” by Mar­i­ani et al. (2021)

T43128 Sep 2022 3:31 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Biolog­i­cal risk from the mir­ror world

jasoncrawford12 Dec 2024 19:07 UTC
334 points
38 comments7 min readLW link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Bench­mark­ing Bowtie2 Threading

jefftk1 Dec 2023 20:20 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Covid 10/​20/​22: Wait, We Did WHAT?

Zvi20 Oct 2022 21:50 UTC
55 points
16 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Far-UVC Light Up­date: No, LEDs are not around the cor­ner (tweet­storm)

Davidmanheim2 Nov 2022 12:57 UTC
74 points
29 comments4 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Po­lio Lab Leak Caught with Wastew­a­ter Sampling

Cullen7 Apr 2023 1:06 UTC
82 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.eurosurveillance.org)

Last Line of Defense: Min­i­mum Vi­able Shelters for Mir­ror Bacteria

Ulrik Horn21 Dec 2024 8:28 UTC
13 points
26 comments21 min readLW link

Scal­able And Trans­fer­able Black-Box Jailbreaks For Lan­guage Models Via Per­sona Modulation

7 Nov 2023 17:59 UTC
38 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Re­tracted] Guess I Was Wrong About AIxBio Risks

J Bostock29 Sep 2025 11:44 UTC
62 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Biosafety Reg­u­la­tions (BMBL) and their rele­vance for AI

Štěpán Los29 Jun 2023 19:22 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

RAND re­port finds no effect of cur­rent LLMs on vi­a­bil­ity of bioter­ror­ism attacks

StellaAthena25 Jan 2024 19:17 UTC
94 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.rand.org)

How to solve the mi­suse prob­lem as­sum­ing that in 10 years the de­fault sce­nario is that AGI agents are ca­pa­ble of syn­thetiz­ing pathogens

jeremtti27 Nov 2024 21:17 UTC
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

The Univer­sal Lock­pick Hy­poth­e­sis: A Struc­tural Vuln­er­a­bil­ity of All Life

Cole Holin23 Mar 2025 19:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

AI and Chem­i­cal, Biolog­i­cal, Ra­diolog­i­cal, & Nu­clear Hazards: A Reg­u­la­tory Review

10 May 2024 8:41 UTC
7 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

AI as a Civ­i­liza­tional Risk Part 4/​6: Bioweapons and Philos­o­phy of Modification

PashaKamyshev1 Nov 2022 20:50 UTC
7 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

A call for a quan­ti­ta­tive re­port card for AI bioter­ror­ism threat models

Juno4 Dec 2023 6:35 UTC
12 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

En­hanc­ing Ge­nomic Foun­da­tion Model Ro­bust­ness through Iter­a­tive Black-Box Ad­ver­sar­ial Training

14 Oct 2025 20:54 UTC
4 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Ap­ply to at­tend a Global Challenges Pro­ject work­shop in 2025!

LiamE11 Dec 2024 0:41 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Weekly In­ci­dence vs Cu­mu­la­tive Infections

jefftk7 Sep 2023 2:30 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

More Than Just A, T, C, and G: Screen­ing for Hid­den Dangers in DNA Sequences

sgd21 Apr 2025 20:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments11 min readLW link

Mir­ror Or­ganisms Are Not Im­mune to Predation

Matt Dellago22 May 2025 11:10 UTC
27 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Dangers of Mir­rored Life

12 Dec 2024 20:58 UTC
121 points
9 comments29 min readLW link
(www.asimov.press)

Res­lab Re­quest for In­for­ma­tion: EA hard­ware projects

Joel Becker26 Oct 2022 21:13 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] H5N1. Just how bad is the situ­a­tion?

Q Home8 Jul 2023 22:09 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Did the Army Poi­son a Bunch of Women in Min­nesota?

rba20 Jun 2025 15:33 UTC
53 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

WHO Biolog­i­cal Risk warning

Jonas Kgomo25 Apr 2023 15:10 UTC
−6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Biose­cu­rity and AI: Risks and Opportunities

Steve Newman27 Feb 2024 18:45 UTC
11 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(www.safe.ai)

Hash­marks: Pri­vacy-Pre­serv­ing Bench­marks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation

Paul Bricman4 Dec 2023 7:31 UTC
12 points
6 comments16 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Why I got the smal­l­pox vac­cine in 2023

joec2 Oct 2023 5:11 UTC
25 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Weekly In­ci­dence In­clud­ing Delay

jefftk20 Sep 2023 14:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Hu­man tri­als for the Mar­burg vac­cine: fund­ing op­por­tu­nity?

americanwalrus27 Jul 2022 5:53 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.independent.co.uk)

Do you want a first-prin­ci­pled pre­pared­ness guide to pre­pare your­self and loved ones for po­ten­tial catas­tro­phes?

Ulrik Horn14 Nov 2023 12:13 UTC
16 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Day Zero An­tivirals for Fu­ture Pandemics

Niko_McCarty26 Aug 2024 15:18 UTC
22 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(www.asimov.press)
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