Morning Edition · Friday, July 17, 2026Published at 1:29 AM EDT · New York
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs Publish a Joint Approach to Biosecurity for AI Models
The labs describe safeguards meant to keep protein-design and biology models from lowering barriers to biological misuse.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs published what they call a joint approach to "bioresilience," setting out how they intend to develop biology and drug-design models while limiting the risk that those systems make it easier to cause biolo…
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