Artificial Intelligence
Building intelligent machines that complement human reasoning and extend what people can do.
Publication
NorMuon: Making Muon more efficient and scalable
Publication
The Markovian Thinker
Podcast
Ideas: More AI-resilient biosecurity with the Paraphrase Project
Microsoft’s Eric Horvitz and guests Bruce Wittmann, Tessa Alexanian, and James Diggans discuss the Paraphrase Project—a red-teaming effort that exposed and secured a biosecurity vulnerability in AI-driven protein design. The work offers a model for…
Microsoft Research Blog
When AI Meets Biology: Promise, Risk, and Responsibility
Microsoft researchers reveal a confidential research effort that explored how open-source AI tools could be used to bypass biosecurity checks—and helped create fixes now influencing global standards.
Project
Paraphrase Project
The Paraphrase Project addresses a critical and emerging risk: as generative AI and synthetic biology advance, there is a growing possibility that open-source AI tools could be misused to design biological toxins that evade current…