Laboratory of Evolutionary Design
Developing biological AI for human good at Stanford University
Research
Our mission is to ensure that the AI revolution in biology occurs in a way that benefits humanity.
We aim to design biology that counteracts evolving threats and accomplishes useful new functions.
Learning from nature
Scientists have collected massive amounts of biological data. Learning evolutionary rules from this data can help design useful new biotechnologies.
Accelerating evolution
From genes to populations, evolution is a unifying theory of biology. Powerful evolutionary models can accelerate biological design across multiple scales of complexity.
Safe biological AI
Evolution is a powerful force, as well as a powerful adversary. Generative models must enable researchers to rapidly deploy countermeasures against harmful biology.
Progress
Some of our research progress is described in the selected publications below.
