A blog analysing biological threats, the offense/defense balance of the physical world, and the economic and geopolitical consequences of advanced AI. Readers get long-form, citation-aware essays, including a multi-part series on AI-driven industrial growth.
Website: https://defenses-in-depth-1.ghost.io/
A practicing data scientist and tenured professor writes about AI, genomics, biosecurity, and how AI is changing scientific practice. Issues combine personal opinion on academic evaluation and publishing norms with pointers to relevant research and calls for papers.
A long-running investigative newsletter that scrutinises claims about COVID-19 origins, especially the lab-leak arguments of Matt Ridley and Robert Kadlec, by checking them against the published scientific record. Readers get point-by-point rebuttals with detailed citations to papers, documents and quotes.
A blog-style newsletter by Mike that critiques AI hype and examines how markets capture abstractions like pricing benchmarks, with posts on egg-market collusion and AI security and biosecurity claims. It also includes a personal tribute to a late collaborator and monthly update summaries.
Johnathan Bi presents interview-based discussions with guests on existential risk, technology and institutions, such as a transcript conversation with Helena CEO Henry Elkus about AI and biosecurity. Readers get long-form interview transcripts and short commentary on great-books-inspired ideas about humanity's survival in an era of rapid technological change.
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