Can AI coding agents rebuild biological AI tools from a paper?
AISI's ReproBAIT evaluation finds coding agents can rebuild simple biological AI tools from limited public info within 4 hours and under $20, undermining withheld-code access controls.
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Pretraining data filtering in open-weight biological models
Tests whether filtering pretraining data can safeguard open-weight protein models against dual-use biological capabilities; finds it selective and effective but not durable against fine-tuning.