Jaime Yassif
@JaimeYassif
NTI | bio Vice President, biophysicist. Working to strengthen biotech governance, biosecurity, pandemic preparedness. Fmr US HHS & DoD, FAS, Open Phil, ChathamH
More than 35 leading experts highlight the risks posed by rapidly advancing capabilities at the convergence of AI and the life sciences and call on governments, model developers, and funders to take action to safeguard this technology. nti.org/news/internati…
Major progress in AIxBio greatly increases the risk of deliberate or accidental release of harmful bioagents. This demands urgent attention, serious caution & decisive action. Read the statement I've signed with many other AI & life science researchers: nti.org/news/internati…
Rapid advances at the intersection of AI and the life sciences have the potential to transform public health and medicine: faster development of vaccines and treatments, earlier outbreak detection, and tools to improve health worldwide. 🧵
Rapid advances at the intersection of AI and the life sciences have the potential to transform public health and medicine: faster development of vaccines and treatments, earlier outbreak detection, and tools to improve health worldwide 🌎
The new Executive Order on Improving the Safety & Security of Biological Research suggests some promising actions to protect modern bioscience & biotech against misuse, but it also threatens crucial research that protects Americans from biological threats nti.org/news/executive…