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Sean Ekins and Filippa Lentzos on a Teachable Moment for Dual-Use Lawfare Aug 26, 2022 The Lawfare Podcast Back in March, a team of researchers published an article in Nature Machine Intelligence showing that a drug discovery company’s AI-powered molecule generator could have a dangerous dual use: The model could design thousands of new biochemical weapons in a matter of hours that were equally as toxic as, if not more toxic than, the nerve agent VX. Lawfare associate editor Tia Sewell sat down with two of the paper’s authors: Dr. Filippa Lentzos, senior lecturer in science & international security at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, and Dr. Sean Ekins, CEO of Collaborations Pharmaceuticals. They discussed the story of their discovery and their reaction to it, as well as how we should think about dual-use artificial intelligence threats more broadly as new technologies expand the potential for malicious use. They also got into why governments need to work more proactively to address the challenges of regulating machine learning software. The Lawfare Podcast: Sean Ekins and Filippa Lentzos on a Teachable Moment for Dual-Use Jen Patja, Tia Sewell, Filippa Lentzos, Sean Ekins Friday, August 26, 2022, 12:00 PM Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery Fabio Urbina, Filippa Lentzos, Cédric Invernizzi & Sean Ekins Nature Machine Intelligence volume 4, pages 189–191 (2022) Published: 07 March 2022 Chapters (auto-generated): 00:00 - Introduction 01:59 - About Megasyn 05:17 - The Misuse of AI Megasyn 17:48 - Data Security 21:30 - Easier to Generate 24:37 - A New World 26:37 - DualUse Dillemma 32:41 - DualUse Potentiality 36:59 - Private Company Responsibiliy 40:43 - Export Control 45:53 - Main Lesson 46:11 - Science Policy 51:52 - Outro Note from Quad Romb - other paper of Ekins (as co-author) at VK: Urbina,Lentzos,Invernizzi,Ekins - Paper - A teachable moment for dual-use (Nature Machine Intelligence) - 2022 Original from here:
