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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.
Publications
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AI Soice et al. (2023)– arXiv
Can large language models democratize access to dual-use biotechnology?
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Forensics Crook et al. (2022)– Nature Communications 13 : 7374
Analysis of the first genetic engineering attribution challenge.
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Esvelt (2022)– Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Delay, Detect, Defend: Preparing for a Future in which Thousands Can Release New Pandemics
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Esvelt (2022)– Senate Testimony
Credible pandemic virus identification will trigger the immediate proliferation of agents as lethal as nuclear devices
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Sandbrink et al. (2022)– Gene Therapy
Insidious Insights: Implications of viral vector engineering for pathogen enhancement.
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NAO NAO Consortium (2021)– arXiv
A Global Nucleic Acid Observatory for Biodefense and Planetary Health
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Rojas et al. (2021)
A Scalable Solution for Signaling Face Touches to Reduce the Spread of Surface-based Pathogens
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Bradshaw et al. (2021)– medRxiv
The feasibility of targeted test-trace-isolate for the control of SARS-CoV-2 variants
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Bradshaw et al. (2021)– Nature Communications 12 : 232
Bidirectional contact tracing could dramatically improve COVID-19 control
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Forensics Alley et al. (2020)– Nature Communications 11 : 6293
A machine learning toolkit for genetic engineering attribution to facilitate biosecurity
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SecureDNA Baum et al. (2020)
Cryptographic Aspects of DNA Screening
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SecureDNA Gretton et al. (2020)
Random adversarial threshold search enables specific, secure, and automated DNA synthesis screening
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Esvelt (2018)– PLOS Pathogens 14 : e1007286
Inoculating science against potential pandemics and information hazards
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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
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AI (2023)– Vox
How AI could spark the next pandemic
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AI (2023)– Axios
Another AI threat: The next pandemic
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AI (2023)– Science
Could chatbots help devise the next pandemic virus?
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Podcast (2023)– Xapiens at MIT
Kevin Esvelt: Pandemics, Gene Drives, Existential Threats
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Presentation (2023)– Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Emerging Technologies: What Opportunities for International Security
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Presentation (2023)– Frontiers Forum Live
Kevin Esvelt | Safeguarding exponential biology
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Op-Ed (2022)– Undark
Experts Debate the Risks of Made-to-Order DNA
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Op-Ed (2022)– Vox
How to make Covid the last pandemic
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Interview (2022)– Vox
Kevin Esvelt wants to make the world safe from — and for — biotechnology
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Op-Ed (2022)– Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
How a deliberate pandemic could crush societies and what to do about it
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Interview (2022)– Asterisk
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
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Podcast (2022)– Hear This Idea
Kevin Esvelt and Jonas Sandbrink on Risks from Biological Research
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Podcast (2022)– Should This Exist?
Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive.
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Podcast (2022)– After On Podcast
Recipes for Future Plagues
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Op-Ed (2021)– Washington Post
Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It’s time to stop.