While it’s thrilling to announce my programme’s funding commitment (>74M$ over 4 years), I’m even more excited to share my first public long-form presentation about the Safeguarded AI plan. ▶️

vimeo.com/932838403/7e7b…

Excited for the launch of ARIA's Safeguarded AI programme. 🚀 The goal: an AI gatekeeper tasked with guaranteeing the outputs of other AI agents.
'If we're successful, we'll build a pipeline from problem specification to demonstrating real economic value.'
Details below 👇 /1

Ultrasound continues to revolutionize Neurotech!

(and more generally anywhere-in-the-body tech)

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I'm hiring a technical specialist to be my right hand person in running the programme. Looking for expertise in neuroengineering/systems-neuro/bioengineering, across academia and/or industry.

If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please checkout the link below👇

This is one of the most exciting opportunities in #neurotech right now.

It's equal parts wildly ambitious and carefully grounded.

Check it out. Be a part of the future of precision neurotech.

🚨Excited to share that our programme thesis is live!🚨
We lay out a vision for ***precision neurotech*** capable of tackling some of the most complex brain disorders at the circuit level. We believe this is possible by leveraging advances in bio- & hardware-engineering🧠🧬💻

Congrats to Forest Neurotech on receiving $14M in funding to create next-generation brain-computer interfaces for individuals with neurological injuries or diseases. Their novel noninvasive approach has a wide range of potential applications, from mitigating seizures to treating…

There is a large number of very-high-impact & good-for-humanity projects out there that match this description:

'beyond the scope of a single academic lab, but doesn’t make sense for a startup'

Can't wait to dive in on *coordinated research projects* from Speculative Technologies!

I keep thinking I’ll become desensitized to the increasing frequency of incredible advances in AI.

Then I find myself in awe. Again.

suno.ai

Can you evolve an acoustic protein? Yes, but first you have to invent a system for high throughput acoustic screening!

Congrats to Rob Hurt, Zhiyang Jin and colleagues on this advance in biomolecular ultrasound. #gasvesicles

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Immune Computer Interfaces 🙌

Closed loop molecular and cellular programming could reduce mortality, enhance healthspan, and catalyze high bandwidth neurotech. 🖥️🧠🧬

I unpack all of these on the Spectech blog:
blog.spec.tech/p/in-defense-o…

Highlighting Nili, our Chief Scientific Officer nature.com/articles/d4158…

How to grow (almost) any microbe. A New Hope. Using just 10% of a genome sequence, we can estimate the required environmental (salt, pH, oxygen, and temp) conditions for growing a microbe in the lab.

Congrats to Cultivarium and Convergent Research for this important progress on domesticating non-model organisms and growing the #bioeconomy . The world needs more FROs, and more philanthropists and governments should support them.

Unblocking one bold research project is helpful.

Developing a system to unblock many is propitious.
That's the mission of Convergent Research.

convergentresearch.org

Excited to share our latest work on image reconstruction!

Announcing MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image with 1 Hour of Data

medarc.ai/mindeye2

If you've ever called for more transparency - or sympathized with those that have - this video is for you.

If state of the art commercial BCI is your jam - this video is for you.

Congrats, DJ and the entire team, including Noland Arbaugh (Neuralink NeuroNaut #1)