SecureBio

@SecureBio

SecureBio is a research non-profit that works to advance biotechnology safely and prevent catastrophic pandemics

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SecureBio
@SecureBio
Sep 14
We ran a brief pre-release assessment of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra that included manual testing and key benchmarks evaluating misuse-relevant knowledge, agentic capabilities, and refusal behavior for hazardous biology queries. Read our summary here:
SecureBio’s GPT-6 Astra Pre-Release Testing Report
From securebio.substack.com
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SecureBio
@SecureBio
Sep 12
SecureBio AI has conducted pre-release assessments and independent risk evaluations for multiple frontier model companies. We are hiring for engineers, researchers, and many other roles to expand this work. Reach out if you're interested in working on bio-focused third-party
Dario Amodei
@DarioAmodei
Sep 12
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our
SecureBio
@SecureBio
Sep 11
We updated our flagship virology troubleshooting benchmark, the Virology Capabilities Test (VCT), to be more shortcut-resistant and to have a larger headroom. We confirmed that the majority of VCT questions are scientifically valid and that neither VCT nor VCT-v2 is saturated.
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SecureBio
@SecureBio
Aug 20
The OpenAI Foundation has granted SecureBio Detection $17.2M to reduce our end-to-end time (sample collection to results) from 14 to 3 days, expand our collection footprint, and further validate our detection system: securebio.org/blog/three-day…
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SecureBio
@SecureBio
Aug 12
SecureBio Detection has been busy since March! We’ve expanded our biosurveillance network, made our nasal swab program more sensitive, and built new partnerships, bringing us closer to a system that can rapidly detect and report on unusual biological events. Get a full rundown in
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