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Speaker: Alexander Titus, Bioeconomy.XYZ

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Violet Teaming AI in the Life Sciences: As modern life science research shifts from an observational field of science to a field of engineering biology, computational techniques are more relevant to every aspect of the field. Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a massive accelerator of biological engineering for its ability to learn the design paradigms of life (DPoL) and understand the genotype-to-phenotype (G2P) relationships of organisms. The reception has been mixed, however, as opportunities across health, energy, environment, agriculture, and industrial materials are confronted with emerging biosecurity risks across novel pathogens of concern and operational knowledge of biological engineering. There is an urgent need for research to be conducted at the intersection of AI security and biosecurity and the establishment of a violet teaming paradigm where research focused on risk is paired with those focused on the opportunity to minimize the downside and maximize the upside provided by AI in the life sciences.

Speaker Bio

Alexander Titus is a technologist working at the intersection of machine learning, bioinformatics, and software engineering, focused specifically on understanding the paradigms of life in biological systems using modern computing tools, and the opportunity/risk trade-offs of the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology. His work ranges from developing new algorithms to study fundamental biology to understanding the functional relationship between biotechnology and new product development. Outside of research, he is the founder of Bioeconomy.XYZ, a publication focused on making the bio-economy more accessible to the general public, and he is also the former principal director for biotechnology within the office of the CTO at the Department of Defense, where he led the team developing the first enterprise biotechnology modernization strategy for the DoD. Titus holds a PhD in Machine Learning and Genomics from Dartmouth College, as well as bachelor’s degrees in biology and biochemistry from the University of Puget Sound.

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