Soap is an OG GPT (as in, general purpose technology)! It’s 1) pervasive throughout society, 2) has improved and become more sophisticated over time and 3) spawned revolutions in public health but also surgery + industrial processes like textile processing.

Data filtration on open-source BDT are mostly security theatre as long as bad actors can just fine-tune the model with viral genomes after training. The answer need not be a forced closed-sourcing of all BDTs. Biosecurity data levels are a light-touch way to differentially

Important paper! I'm excited to see more empirical research looking at if filtering out specific bio-datasets can narrowly target dual-use capabilities. But it seems pertinent to begin thinking about what such biological data frameworks might look like and where to draw the

Blog post: Tiered Access for AIxBio Governance: Parallel proposals target training data and model access to reduce #biosecurity risk blog.stephenturner.us/p/tiered-acces…

AlphaFold won a Nobel Prize and is being used to design new drugs. How do we get more AI models like it? My new piece introduces "Natural Law Models" (NLMs): AI models trained on scientific data to uncover the rules governing nature. I also lay out what policymakers and funders

Factories used to be very dangerous. The anti-capitalist take is that greedy owners didn't care for worker safety. But what if safe factories were only possible after increases in per-capita wealth? Interesting implications for AI progress and policy. blog.rootsofprogress.org/history-of-fac…

Progress and governance don't need to be contradictions. They can go hand-in-hand; the revolutionary opensafely.org platform demonstrated this. Appreciate the nuanced coverage of our bio data governance work in Axios.

"Too slow for venture, too profitable for charity" — Anastasia Gamick pinpoints the reason that companies with immense social value don't yet exist. I'd bet on the team behind Convergent Research to figure this out.

sometimes you meet someone and you're like "this is going to be amazing" - had deeply immense joy editing with Jassi Pannu this past week and cannot wait for y'all to see what is cooking