Rob Wiblin

So if people are looking for more ideas for science that they could go do or I guess companies even that they could start, then they could go and start by looking at that blog post.

Please do.

An audience question was, I hear lots about Silicon Valley startups doing biosecurity, including Valthos and Red Queen Bio.

Many of them claim to be targeted at AI bio.

I'm interested in assessments on how much risk these startups reduce.

I guess I should say, so Valthos aggregates biological data from commercial and government sources to identify emerging threats and assess risks.

And Red Queen works with Frontier Labs to map AI-enabled bio threats and pre-build medical countermeasures.

Yeah.

Isn't this quite a fundamental problem that safety testing just takes time because you have to put it into human beings and see how that plays out.

The fact that AI is getting better doesn't allow you to speed that up so enormously.

I mean, you can do like in silico simulations, but that's not going to be fully persuasive or reassuring to people.

So they might just not be willing to take these medicines unless it's like a really extreme situation.

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