Tessa Alexanian

I've joined Sentinel Bio to lead their work on synthesis screening. This means I'm taking responsibility (insofar as I can) for getting to the 2030 victory conditions published earlier this year. These are ambitious goals, and 3 years is both a short and long time: let's do this.

On November 10, Joey Bream and I will host the final Bay Area Biosecurity meetup of the season: an interactive workshop on the Bio Action Plan, featuring a fireside chat with @gralston and brainstorming on the plan's Requests for Action.

fascinating, and probably going to get more common - obfuscated javascript for browser fingerprinting includes strings like "computeRicinLethalDosageForWaterSupply" and "Tank Man198965" so that LLMs trying to decode it trip up on their safety filters

Bad day for securing Bio AI with managed access or pretraining data filters. @AISecurityInst found:

1. Agents can reproduce bio-AI tools on 1 GPU for <$20 with just abstracts and public data
2. Fine-tuning can restore full capability to ESM-2 trained w/o viral proteins for <$80

cyber things I did today:
* read karpathy.bearblog.dev/digital-hygien…, x.com/peterwildeford…, asked LLM to make me a checklist
* most critical accounts (email, github, banks) now all use yubikey 2FA
* gmails have advanced protection, passwords not in 1password
* fixed laptop auto-updates