Prioritizing High-Consequence Biological Capabilities in Evaluations of Artificial Intelligence Models

Understand

As a result of rapidly accelerating AI capabilities, over the past year, national governments and multinational bodies have announced efforts to address safety, security and ethics issues related to AI models.

• One high priority among these efforts is the mitigation of misuse of AI models.
• Many biologists have for decades sought to reduce the risks of scientific research that could lead, through accident or misuse, to high-consequence disease outbreaks.
• Scientists have carefully considered what types of life sciences research have the potential for both benefit and risk (dual-use), especially as scientific advances have accelerated our ability to engineer organisms and create novel variants of pathogens.