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AI safety adjacent
| Sentinel Bio | $527,000 | 100% | 2 |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2026 | Sentinel Bio | $418,000 | AI × bio, Biosecurity | sentinel_bio | We provided $418,000 to Fourth Eon Bio to advance function-based screening in the nucleic acid synthesis industry. This includes evaluating whether AI-powered biological design tools can generate threats that evade current screening methods and developing new approaches to detect them. Fourth Eon Bio will also continue to build consensus across synthesis providers, screening tool developers, and biosecurity experts on how to standardize and deploy function-based screening. We expect their work will advance global biosecurity by improving screening quality and resilience against emerging AI capabilities. | |
| Sep 2025 | Sentinel Bio | $109,000 | AI × bio, Biosecurity | sentinel_bio | We provided $109,000 to Fourth Eon Bio to improve function-based screening in the nucleic acid synthesis industry. They will create benchmark datasets of AI-generated sequences to test screening methods and evaluate AI models for predicting biological functions. In addition, they will facilitate conversations with nucleic acid synthesis providers, screening tool providers, the biological design tool community, and biosecurity experts to develop and integrate more robust function-based screening approaches capable of detecting engineered and AI-designed biological threats. Learn more |