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Delay, Detect, Defend: Preparing for a Future in which Thousands Can Release New Pandemics

Professor Kevin Esvelt, Director of SecureBio, lays out the Delay/Detect/Defend framework in a white paper for the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

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Publications

  1. AI Soice et al. (2023)
    – arXiv

    Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology?

  2. Forensics Crook et al. (2022)
    – Nature Communications 13 : 7374

    Analysis of the first genetic engineering attribution challenge.

  3. Esvelt (2022)
    – Geneva Centre for Security Policy

    Delay, Detect, Defend: Preparing for a Future in which Thousands Can Release New Pandemics

  4. Esvelt (2022)
    – Senate Testimony

    Credible pandemic virus identification will trigger the immediate proliferation of agents as lethal as nuclear devices

  5. Sandbrink et al. (2022)
    – Gene Therapy

    Insidious Insights: Implications of viral vector engineering for pathogen enhancement.

  6. NAO NAO Consortium (2021)
    – arXiv

    A Global Nucleic Acid Observatory for Biodefense and Planetary Health

  7. Rojas et al. (2021)

    A Scalable Solution for Signaling Face Touches to Reduce the Spread of Surface-based Pathogens

  8. Bradshaw et al. (2021)
    – medRxiv

    The feasibility of targeted test-trace-isolate for the control of SARS-CoV-2 variants

  9. Bradshaw et al. (2021)
    – Nature Communications 12 : 232

    Bidirectional contact tracing could dramatically improve COVID-19 control

  10. Forensics Alley et al. (2020)
    – Nature Communications 11 : 6293

    A machine learning toolkit for genetic engineering attribution to facilitate biosecurity

  11. SecureDNA Baum et al. (2020)

    Cryptographic Aspects of DNA Screening

  12. SecureDNA Gretton et al. (2020)

    Random adversarial threshold search enables specific, secure, and automated DNA synthesis screening

  13. Esvelt (2018)
    – PLOS Pathogens 14 : e1007286

    Inoculating science against potential pandemics and information hazards

  14. Lipsitch et al. (2015)
    – Ann. Intern. Med. 163 : 790-791

    Calls for Caution in Genome Engineering Should Be a Model for Similar Dialogue on Pandemic Pathogen Research

Other media

  1. AI (2023)
    – Vox

    How AI could spark the next pandemic

  2. AI (2023)
    – Axios

    Another AI threat: The next pandemic

  3. AI (2023)
    – Science

    Could chatbots help devise the next pandemic virus?

  4. Podcast (2023)
    – Xapiens at MIT

    Kevin Esvelt: Pandemics, Gene Drives, Existential Threats

  5. Presentation (2023)
    – Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

    Emerging Technologies: What Opportunities for International Security

  6. Presentation (2023)
    – Frontiers Forum Live

    Kevin Esvelt | Safeguarding exponential biology

  7. Op-Ed (2022)
    – Undark

    Experts Debate the Risks of Made-to-Order DNA

  8. Op-Ed (2022)
    – Vox

    How to make Covid the last pandemic

  9. Interview (2022)
    – Vox

    Kevin Esvelt wants to make the world safe from — and for — biotechnology

  10. Op-Ed (2022)
    – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

    How a deliberate pandemic could crush societies and what to do about it

  11. Interview (2022)
    – Asterisk

    How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

  12. Podcast (2022)
    – Hear This Idea

    Kevin Esvelt and Jonas Sandbrink on Risks from Biological Research

  13. Podcast (2022)
    – Should This Exist?

    Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive.

  14. Podcast (2022)
    – After On Podcast

    Recipes for Future Plagues

  15. Op-Ed (2021)
    – Washington Post

    Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It’s time to stop.