Interpreting Dual-Use Biology Benchmarks for Frontier AI

Source: Rand.org· Grant Ellison, Jeffrey Lee, Barbara Del Castello, Sunishchal Dev, Kyle Brady· August 6, 2026

The authors find that many artificial intelligence (AI) benchmark tasks are no longer informative, but a frontier of difficult tasks remains so, with recent gains concentrated on difficult tasks theorized to be relevant to real-world risk.

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