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Alexandra Kelley,Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW
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“The federal government just does not have enough experts left to handle this threat or even be able to coordinate among outside groups without significant immediate investment,” one federal official said of the report’s findings.
RAND calls for layered AI security in biological research—model safeguards, access controls, federal governance—to prevent weaponized pathogen synthesis. Government must hire experts and enforce audit logging, credentials verification for bio-AI; Anthropic's Mythos breach showed the threat is urgent.
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Alexandra Kelley,Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW
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Alexandra Kelley

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