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

Publications

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

   Soice et al. (2023)

   – arXiv

2. Analysis of the first genetic engineering attribution challenge.

   Crook et al. (2022)

   – Nature Communications 13 : 7374

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

   Esvelt (2022)

   – Geneva Centre for Security Policy

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

   Esvelt (2022)

   – Senate Testimony

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

   Sandbrink et al. (2022)

   – Gene Therapy

6. A Global Nucleic Acid Observatory for Biodefense and Planetary Health

   NAO Consortium (2021)

   – arXiv

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

   Rojas et al. (2021)

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

   Bradshaw et al. (2021)

   – medRxiv

9. Bidirectional contact tracing could dramatically improve COVID-19 control

   Bradshaw et al. (2021)

   – Nature Communications 12 : 232

10. A machine learning toolkit for genetic engineering attribution to facilitate biosecurity

    Alley et al. (2020)

    – Nature Communications 11 : 6293

11. Cryptographic Aspects of DNA Screening

    Baum et al. (2020)

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

    Gretton et al. (2020)

13. Inoculating science against potential pandemics and information hazards

    Esvelt (2018)

    – PLOS Pathogens 14 : e1007286

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

    Lipsitch et al. (2015)

    – Ann. Intern. Med. 163 : 790-791