Compare how countries handle biosecurity suspicious-activity reports (reporting chains, data storage, privacy, jurisdiction gaps) against the financial sector’s anti-money-laundering systems.
Status: A related MITRE grant covers part of this. Focus on the international comparison.
If a suspicious order is spotted, someone has to receive the report and act. Gaps between countries are where bad actors would look first.
Output: A comparison table and short policy analysis.
Write your question in one sentence.
Spend 30 minutes finding what has already been written about it.
Collect evidence in a simple table: claim, source, how strong.
Draft 1–2 pages: answer first, then reasons, then uncertainties.
Ask one person to poke holes in it, revise, and share.
All steps done
Share what you made, then try another project. The PDF version has room for notes.
AI biology tools (protein design, CRISPR design and more) sometimes publish biosecurity statements. Add new tools to the repository and compare what they promise.
Compare “know your customer” and other frameworks for making DNA ordering more secure, drawing on what finance and other industries already do.
What should happen when someone discovers that a new tool could break existing defences, such as evading DNA screening? Draft a responsible-disclosure framework.
