person
Kevin Esvelt
MIT biosecurity and gene drive researcher
MIT biologist who invented CRISPR gene drives. Has warned consistently that LLM-assisted biology lowers barriers to bioweapon development; a key advisor to US biosecurity policy.
current Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI biosecurity risks, including uplift for biological weapons, are the most concrete, measurable near-term catastrophic risk.
Large language models lower the technical barrier to bioweapon synthesis. This is an empirical claim, not a speculation.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.