America Can’t Afford AI Biosecurity Theater

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Jun 09, 2026

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Late last week, a high-profile list of frontier AI folks, policy experts and biologists released a letter calling for immediate measures to mitigate the risk of AI-mediated bioterrorism. The details …

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A guest post by

Eryney Marrogi

I'm medical student at the University of Vermont, with experience in biological engineering from working on mosquitoes in George Church's lab at Harvard, AAV for gene therapy at Dyno Therapeutics, and novel biosensors at Caltech.