Bio-Security Stack
Matt LubinUpdates and thoughts on keeping humanity safe from threats arising from both biological and artificial life.
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Giving the AI models a biology exam
[Data collection and interpretation were done by me with some help from Claude Opus 5; figures were written in python mostly by Claude; the text below was written entirely by myself, except for the text that appears in the figures.]
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Five Things: August 2, 2026
Five things that happened/were publicized this past week in the worlds of biosecurity and AI/tech:
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Anthropic discloses that Claude models hacked three companies during safety testing
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Frontier-lab employees sign a letter asking W...
Five Things: July 26, 2026
Five things that happened/were publicized this past week in the worlds of biosecurity and AI/tech:
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OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face and it gets worse from there
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Claude Opus 5 ships with biosecurity concerns
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RAND report on...
On the HuggingFace “Incident"
[A few paragraphs here were written with the help of AI, even though Substack’s new AI-detector didn’t think so. See if you can spot the LLM slop-isms; I think they are obvious but apparently Pangram doesn’t!]
Introduction
This past we...
Five Things: July 19, 2026
Five things that happened/were publicized this past week in the worlds of biosecurity and AI/tech:
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A new paper suggesting most antibiotics wouldn’t work against mirror bacteria
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Chinese model Kimi K3 is very good, and has the US...
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Microbiologist-in-training who's also trying to keep up with the whole AI "situation." To me, it looks pretty serious.\ud83d\ude2c
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