AI in Biosecurity: Threats and Governance
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming biological research through various models and tools. General-purpose large language models can retrieve scientific information and support experiments, while biological foundation models predict and generate genetic sequences. AI systems also coordinate tasks and operate automated laboratories. These advancements promise benefits in medicine and…
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- AI excels in digital tasks but struggles with physical execution
- Frontier AI systems exceed expert baselines on in-silico benchmarks
- Biological threats include information gathering, design, procurement, synthesis, testing, scale-up, and release
Read the original at arXiv cs.AI · by Candace S. Y. Chan, Aris Karatzikos, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares primary source Open source ↗
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