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Biosafety Benchmarks
The 50 percent ceiling on AI pathogen surveillance that should keep us up at night
BioSecBench-Surveillance tested sixteen AI agent configurations on 100 genomic surveillance tasks. The top performers managed only about 50 percent accuracy. The mistakes came not from picking the wrong workflow but from the surrounding choices - references, thresholds, filters - that humans take for granted.
2026-07-25