Advanced AI can transform biology and medicine—but also raises biosecurity risks. We’re proactively assessing capabilities and implementing safeguards to prevent misuse.
arXiv:2607. 05462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As AI agents are incorporated into life science workflows, the capabilities that speed discovery might also enable misuse.
By Edwin H. Wintermute, Harmon Bhasin, Christina M. Agapakis, Dianzhuo Wang, Evan Seeyave, Arjun Banerjee, Daniel Fulop, Matthew C. Watson, Adam J. Meyer, Sandrine Boissel, Jens H. Kuhn, Rishi Jain, Noah D. Taylor, Helena Shomar, Patrick M. Boyle, Kenny Workman
arXiv:2606. 11150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly acquiring capabilities relevant to biological research, from literature synthesis to interpretation of experimental data.
By Andrew Bo Liu, Samira Nedungadi, Bryce Cai, Alex Kleinman, Harmon Bhasin, Seth Donoughe
arXiv:2607. 05462v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI agents are incorporated into life science workflows, the capabilities that speed discovery might also enable misuse.
By Edwin H. Wintermute, Harmon Bhasin, Christina M. Agapakis, Dianzhuo Wang, Evan Seeyave, Arjun Banerjee, Daniel Fulop, Matthew C. Watson, Adam J. Meyer, Sandrine Boissel, Jens H. Kuhn, Rishi Jain, Noah D. Taylor, Helena Shomar, Patrick M. Boyle, Kenny Workman
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems are beginning to assist, accelerate, and partially automate scientific discovery, performing tasks that span literature synthesis, code generation, data analysis, hypothesis proposal, and model criticism. We argue that this transition is qualitative rather than incremental, and that suitably designed multi-agent systems may evolve from passive computational tools into ``AI scientists'' that can expand the hypothesis-generating and verification capacity of science.
arXiv:2605. 02050v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work establishes a framework for standardizing AI evaluation RCTs (sometimes called human uplift studies).
By Christopher Kelly, Angelica Chowdhury, Alexandra Campili, Bimpe Ayoola, Devin Barbour, Thomas Chen Dawson, Ze Shen Chin, Rokas Gipi\v{s}kis