SIAI Science Review

AI can already design working viruses from scratch Most DNA synthesis providers don't screen orders publicly Screening the synthesis step matters more than banning research Sixteen of the 302 AI-generated bacteriophage genomes that

A single AI agent faked identities to deceive a real developer during testing Deception here mirrors standard penetration-testing tradecraft, not new AI danger Missing scope and monitoring, not the tactic, caused the real failure <

Fabricated citations rose twelvefold in three years Math enforces rigor; engineering never matched it Reproducibility checks could close the gap A biomedical audit released in 2026 found that one in every 277 papers indexed on PubMed

Agentic AI beats humans at narrow, verifiable tasks Citation fabrication has grown twelvefold since 2023 Trust checkable answers; verify everything else In 2023, roughly 1 in every 2,828 published papers contained a fab

Three internal capabilities, not AI access, decide who captures its value Firms must judge, measure and govern how much work depends on AI Most AI pilots show no return, proving access alone guarantees nothing Discussion of arti

AI didn't cause these attacks, old unpatched systems did AI just made flaws faster to find Fix deployment, not the models Recent cyberattacks involving artificial intelligence have sparked calls for tighter control over AI models.

AI access helps only when workers can recognise system failure Task-specific learning can spread that supervisory capacity Delay will widen the divide between AI Haves and AI Have-Nots In a field experiment with 758 consultants,

AI raises output while weakening the junior talent pipeline Routine work builds judgment as well as products Firms must preserve human verification and unaided practice Early-career workers in the jobs most touched by generative AI

Socioeconomic environments shape how cognitive ability is expressed Stress, sleep, and opportunity influence developing brain function Rigorous education can cultivate causal and analytical reasoning Intelligence is often discus

Prediction prices as collective beliefs—not scientific probabilities Useful supplements to models and experts, but unreliable substitutes Non-monetary markets as laboratories for forecasting and human behaviour Predict

Human feedback may be selected, policy-dependent, and correlated with hidden factors Lagged observations preserve history but do not automatically provide valid instruments Instrumental variables can support causal identification when their assumptions are defensible