NeurIPS 2025 Workshop

Biosecurity Safeguards for Generative AI

San Diego, California, USA

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline (OpenReview)
August 29, 2025 AOE
Acceptance Notification:
September 22, 2025
Camera-Ready Deadline:
October 23, 2025
Workshop:
December 2025, NeurIPS 2025

Workshop Overview

AI & the Bio-Revolution: Innovating Responsibly, Securing Our Future

Generative AI is driving a revolution in biotechnology, but with immense potential comes critical biosecurity challenges.

🚀 The Promise

GenAI offers unprecedented speed in drug discovery, protein engineering, and synthetic biology.

⚠️ The Peril

These same tools could be misused to design novel pathogens and toxins, amplifying dual-use risks at an alarming pace.

🔍 The Gap

AI biosecurity is dangerously underexplored, and most generative tools lack built-in safeguards.

🎯 Our Mission

This workshop will unite experts in AI, synthetic biology, biosecurity policy, and ethics to forge actionable solutions. We will move to embed robust, AI-native safeguards directly within the core of these powerful tools.

🤝 Join us to:

  • Engineer next-generation technical guardrails and defenses.
  • Establish benchmarks for risk prediction and red-teaming.
  • Build a global coalition for secure and responsible AI innovation in the life sciences.

Speaker & Panelist

Yoshua Bengio Mila, Université de Montréal
Peter Henderson Princeton University
Jian Ma Carnegie Mellon University
Russ Altman Stanford University
Eric Xing Carnegie Mellon University, MBZUAI, Petuum Inc.
Theofanis Karaletsos Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Megan Blewett Iris Medicine, Kelonia Therapeutics
George Church Harvard University, Wyss Institute
Le Cong Stanford University

Workshop Organizers

Mengdi Wang
Princeton University
Le Cong
Stanford University
Amrit Singh Bedi
University of Central Florida
Alvaro Velasquez
University of Colorado Boulder
Zaixi Zhang
Princeton University
Ruofan Jin
Princeton University
Souradip Chakraborty
University of Maryland

Student Organizers

Jigang Fan
Peking University
Zhenghong Zhou
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Avinash Reddy
University of Central Florida