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Bio-Security Stack

Matt Lubin

Updates and thoughts on keeping humanity safe from threats arising from both biological and artificial life.

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Five Things: May 31, 2026

[Note: drafting help this week once again from Claude Opus 4.8. I use Claude to organize and summarize the links in the “In Other News” section, although I edited it substantially; I also use Claude to find specific details I’m looking for...

10 days ago
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Five Things: May 24, 2026

[Note: sorry this is a day late; I blame it on the fact that this weekend was a US federal holiday. It’s been an especially busy week, and so I also got help drafting the newsletter from Claude Opus 4.7]

Five things that happened/were publ...

15 days ago
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Five Things: May 17, 2026

Five things that happened/were publicized this past week in the worlds of biosecurity and AI/tech:

  1. FMF brief on incident reporting

  2. Two papers on insidious AI political bias

  3. California and Illinois are inching forwards

4...

24 days ago
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Five Things: May 10, 2026

Five things that happened/were publicized this past week in the worlds of biosecurity and AI/tech:

  1. Government moves toward formal pre-deployment AI model vetting

  2. Anthropic reads Claude’s mind, and finds things hiding in there...

a month ago
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Five Things: May 3, 2026

AI x biosecurity got the New York Times treatment this week. I don’t love the article; but I’m glad that one of the country’s biggest newspapers covered the kind of stuff I’m working on.

This was another week where I don’t feel like there...

a month ago

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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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