Risks from AI in basic biology research can be addressed with a dual mitigation strategy that comprises basic education in AI ethics and community governance measures that are tailored to the needs of individual research communities.
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The author acknowledges support from the research program Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, which is funded through the Gravitation program of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research under grant number 024.004.031.
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Prunkl, C. AI meets biology: a call for community governance. Nat Methods 21, 1407–1408 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02332-4
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