Biosecurity

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

Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11

eukaryote7 Jan 2024 4:49 UTC

57 points

9 comments32 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

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

Ruby and Joseph Bloom

17 Sep 2023 18:45 UTC

27 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Benchmarking Bowtie2 Threading

jefftk1 Dec 2023 20:20 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 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

My Mid-Career Transition into Biosecurity

jefftk2 Oct 2023 21:20 UTC

26 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Real biosafety is socially inconvenient

ChristianKl2 Apr 2022 18:50 UTC

31 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

[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

Enhancing biosecurity with language models: defining research directions

mic26 Mar 2024 12:30 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(papers.ssrn.com)

Sequencing Intro

jefftk29 Aug 2022 17:50 UTC

39 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Case Rates to Sequencing Reads

jefftk21 Sep 2022 2:00 UTC

15 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Fer32dwt34r3dfsz28 Sep 2022 3:31 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/20/22: Wait, We Did WHAT?

Zvi20 Oct 2022 21:50 UTC

55 points

16 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Linkpost] Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate

trevor28 Mar 2024 16:03 UTC

81 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(www.astralcodexten.com)

Out-of-distribution Bioattacks

jefftk2 Dec 2023 12:20 UTC

66 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Davidmanheim2 Nov 2022 12:57 UTC

70 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Intercept article about lab accidents

ChristianKl7 Nov 2022 21:10 UTC

23 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(theintercept.com)

Public Weights?

jefftk2 Nov 2023 2:50 UTC

49 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Biosecurity Culture, Computer Security Culture

jefftk30 Aug 2023 16:40 UTC

103 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Weekly Incidence Including Delay

jefftk20 Sep 2023 14:00 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why I got the smallpox vaccine in 2023

joec2 Oct 2023 5:11 UTC

22 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

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)

Reslab Request for Information: EA hardware projects

Joel Becker26 Oct 2022 21:13 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 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

Biosecurity and AI: Risks and Opportunities

Steve Newman27 Feb 2024 18:45 UTC

9 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(www.safe.ai)

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)

OpenAI report also finds no effect of current LLMs on viability of bioterrorism attacks

lberglund1 Feb 2024 20:18 UTC

19 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Apply to the Pivotal Research Fellowship (AI Safety & Biosecurity)

Tobias H and tilmanr

10 Apr 2024 12:08 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Polio Lab Leak Caught with Wastewater Sampling

Cullen7 Apr 2023 1:06 UTC

82 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

WHO Biological Risk warning

Jonas Kgomo25 Apr 2023 15:10 UTC

−6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Soroush Pour, rusheb, Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI, Arush and scasper

7 Nov 2023 17:59 UTC

36 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

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

Ulrik Horn14 Nov 2023 12:13 UTC

15 points

5 comments15 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

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)

Biosafety Regulations (BMBL) and their relevance for AI

Štěpán Los29 Jun 2023 19:22 UTC

4 points

0 comments4 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

Scaling and Sustaining Standards: A Case Study on the Basel Accords

Conrad K.16 Jul 2023 22:01 UTC

8 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Weekly Incidence vs Cumulative Infections

jefftk7 Sep 2023 2:30 UTC

13 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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