…conjuring up scenarios that only exist in my head. The extreme challenge here is that I don’t want to describe something that might give a bad person a good idea,…

…science can be misused for bad purposes Legitimate life sciences research can be used for both benevolent and malevolent purposes Key challenge: How to facilitate beneficial biological research while mitigating…

…information for bad actors to pose threats that: Would cause substantial harm/severe impact  Pose risk to large populations  Require little or no additional information  For which there…

10/12/2018 Submission #1: Date 08/17/2018 Name: James Buchanan Organization: Email: [email protected] Comment: While I am not a scientist, nor one who can claim clear understanding of the science involved in…

…Jan Nicholson (CDC) Jessica Petrillo (Dept. of State) Rob Weyant (CDC SAP) Ed You (DOJ/FBI) Voting Members Federal Representatives CRWG Aims Identify strategies and develop specific guidance for enhancing the…

Responsible Public Communication Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/epp/people/faculty/baruch-fischhoff.html National Scientific Advisory Board for Biosecurity Bethesda, MD January 24, 2020 http://www.cmu.edu/epp/people/faculty/baruch-fischhoff.html Intuitions Are Unreliable People overestimate how well they understand…

Responsible Public Communication Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/epp/people/faculty/baruch-fischhoff.html National Scientific Advisory Board for Biosecurity Bethesda, MD January 24, 2020 http://www.cmu.edu/epp/people/faculty/baruch-fischhoff.html Intuitions Are Unreliable People overestimate how well they understand…

…Instead, it found that reports often conflated incidents with LAIs. Many of the incidents were bad events that have degraded public trust but have not caused infection. Dr. Casagrande also…

…populations of good and bad parts • Error rate of on in a few hundred  Larger parts are biological • Unpredictable behavior  The final product must be perfect…

WRITTEN STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN, MD MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND GYONGYI SZABO, MD, PhD UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE…