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Preparing for future AI risks in biology

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Advanced AI can transform biology and medicine—but also raises biosecurity risks. We’re proactively assessing capabilities and implementing safeguards to prevent misuse.

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arXiv AI
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Measuring Biological Capabilities and Risks of AI Agents

arXiv:2606. 19899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper addresses a rapidly emerging policy challenge: how to generate and interpret credible evidence about the biological capabilities and risks of AI scientists, or agentic AI systems capable of autonomously or collaboratively performing multi-step scientific tasks.

By Patricia Paskov, Jeffrey Lee, Kyle Brady, Alyssa Worland
arXiv AI
Jul 22

BioSecBench-Refusal: A paired metric for performance and alignment in agentic biosecurity risk assessment

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 AI
Jul 8

Evaluating calibrated refusal and safe usefulness in dual-use biology settings

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