Esvelt vs Church: The AI Bio-Risk Camp Among Biologists Is Not Monolithic
davidmanheim · x · 2026-09-15
David Manheim adds nuance to the AI bio-risk debate: Kevin Esvelt is firmly in the high-risk camp, George Church is more measured though he signed the 2025 AIxBio statement, and David Relman is very concerned but not part of the hardcore 'stop or we're definitely screwed' group like Esvelt and Roger Brent.
More from Safety
- Claude's hidden text watermark: how invisible fingerprints detect AI writing — Two Minute Papers · 2026-09-15
- US Senate weighs letting government auditors directly test frontier AI models — VraserX · 2026-09-15
- Ant open-sources SingProbe, a runtime guardrail reading risk from hidden states at <0.5% overhead — aigclink · 2026-09-15
- Reddit thread challenges AI slowdown opponents: what exactly do you disagree with? — nemzylannister · 2026-09-15
- Oxford report: many international AI agreements are verifiable without speculative tech — davidmanheim · 2026-09-15
- Andreessen slams AI decelerationists: their regulation will rob the country of prosperity — beffjezos · 2026-09-15