Estimating the costs of compliance options for the BWC
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Abstract
Estimating the costs of compliance options for the BWCThe Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is neither in crisis nor at a crossroads, and as no state party has, to date, sought to withdraw from the convention, it can be assumed that each continues to see benefits from being within the BWC regime.Indeed, the BWC intersessional processes (ISP), which was designed to, inter alia, sustain multilateral discussion around biological disarmament following the acrimonious collapse of the protocol negotiations in 2001, have arguably exceeded expectations.Moreover, during a Special Session of the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference in 2015, the former Pakistani Ambassador, Masood Khan who presided over the Sixth BWC Review Conference in 2006, suggested that the BWC 'is by far the most successful WMD non-proliferation and disarmament regime'.Most successful or not, over the course of the Third ISP, a significant number of states across all regional groups have expressed an interest in strengthening the convention, a topic which has largely been avoided since 2001.Since 2012, several states-including Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK and the US-have submitted working papers referring to the 'need to talk about compliance'.In 2015, the Russian Federation proposed an 'Open-ended Working Group' to 'draft proposals to strengthen the Convention'; France, the Benelux states and several other states also appear to be pursing peer review type mechanism to look at aspects of national implementation, and yet other states continue to maintain the position that the only sustainable means of strengthening the convention is through a multilaterally negotiated, legally binding, verification protocol.It appears then that many states parties ostensibly support doing 'something' to strengthen the BWC; but there is no consensus on how, nor necessarily an appreciation of the financial
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it