Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://www.faruvc.org/ Author(s): Jeff Kaufman. 

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://blog.bluedot.org/p/what-is-ai-alignmentAuthor...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/flipping-the-switch-on-far-...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/hs.2022.0126 Author(s): Nadia...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.Executive SummaryThe chance of H5N1 or one of its descendants causing a pandemic is slim, but the impact would probably be more severe than COVID-19A...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://defensesindepth.bio/t...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://epoch.ai/gra...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Description: This post models how an effective biosurveillance system might work in the US using metagenomic sequencing (MGS). Metagenomic sequencing can read out any n...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://red.anthropic.com/2025/biorisk/ Author(s): Anthropic

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://www.gcsp.ch/sites/defau...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://blog.bluedot.org/p/how-ai-could-enable-catastrophic-pandemics...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/how-to-stop-bioterrorists-...

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Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK614029/ Author(s): Aishani Aatr...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. Original Text: https://press.asimov.com/articles/antiviralsAuthor(s): Brian Wang

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. This introduction to the course underscores its focus on mitigating the risk of catastrophic pandemics, a specific aspect of the complex and multidisciplinary field of biosec...

Audio versions of the blog posts and papers from BlueDot courses. This table documents the known human-caused pathogen exposure events from 1975-2016, both accidental and deliberate, from peaceful research and bioweapons programmes...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. This document introduces the concept of information hazards (often called 'info hazards') and reasoning for why we should be cautious around them. It also provides a list of ...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses. This report breaks down the categorisation of LLMs and BDTs into more specific subcategories of AI-enabled biological tools at each stage of the risk chain, from ideation to ...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.This paper proposes two categories of AI models that could have impacts on biosecurity in different ways: large language models (LLMs) and biological design tools (BDTs). Overall, ...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.Historically, the complexity and unpredictability of biology has meant most scientific progress in this field has come from slow and expensive trial-and-error experiments. This pos...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.There is a tension in the life sciences between scientific transparency and the need for secrecy to protect national or global security. This report introduces the term 'dual-use r...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.This article introduces a range of strategies to reduce pandemic risk whilst drawing parallels to fire-fighting interventions. It argues that pandemic prevention, like fire-fightin...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.As synthetic biology techniques develop and the barriers to entry become lower, we are increasingly seeing the development of privately-operated biological labs. These often enforc...

Audio versions of blogs and papers from BlueDot courses.This article proposes four key actions that can be taken to prevent outbreaks from zoonotic spillover: protecting tropical forests, regulating or banning live wildlife markets, imp...