Thoughts on Ronald Purser's December 2025 essay in Current Affairs, "AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself"

A Measured Approach to AI+Biosecurity: The "If-Then" Framework from the 2025 NASEM report, The Age of AI in the Life Sciences: Benefits and Biosecurity Considerations.

I'm not going to listen to opinions about AI from people who don't use AI.

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A new Consensus Study Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is now available: The Age of AI in the Life Sciences: Benefits and Biosecurity Considerations.

Accepted papers from the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI (BioSafe GenAI 2025)

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An AI Manhattan Project for Science and Biotech

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Conventional Comments provides a framework for offering clear and actionable feedback in peer review

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