Ideas: More AI-resilient biosecurity with the Paraphrase Project

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Oct 6, 20250:52:10Technology

Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz and guests Bruce Wittmann, Tessa Alexanian, and James Diggans discuss the Paraphrase Project—a red-teaming effort that exposed and secured a biosecurity vulnerability in AI-driven protein design....

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