Johns Hopkins security center proposes controls on data, models posing pandemic risks

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security focuses on governance practices for biological data as well as biosecurity and biosafety issues related to advanced artificial intelligence models, in comments on an initiative for enlisting the Department of Energy’s vast research resources in the development of “frontier AI.”

“CHS’s responses below address data governance practices and risks, balancing national security concerns with the open sourcing of models, and considerations to inform DOE's ongoing AI red-teaming and safety tests for CBRN risks,...