Joe Torres

Joe Torres is the Executive Director of Active Site, a nonprofit research organization that studies biological risks from frontier technologies through real-world experiments. His current work focuses on AI-bio risk, including randomized controlled trials measuring how AI affects performance in the biology laboratory and studies of biological risk vulnerabilities. Before focusing on AI-bio risk, his work at Active Site included broad-spectrum antivirals and countermeasures for mirror biology. Joe holds a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from UMass Amherst.