The debate over AI and public safety isn't one that the health care or research community can ignore.
RAND proposes nine strategies against AI-enabled bioweapons via information access controls, supply disruption, and misuse detection. AI agents risk lowering bioweapon expertise barriers, requiring governance across government, tech industry, and research communities.
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AI-enabled bioweapons are a potentially catastrophic yet manageable risk — if government, the scientific community, the public health sector and leading tech companies can develop appropriate safeguards, a new report argues.
Why it matters: The debate over AI and public safety isn't one that the health care or research communities can ignore.
Google says the same frontier AI models that could create new biological risks can also help prevent them.
Lawmakers in both parties are looking to set legal guardrails for military AI as autonomous weapons play a larger role in modern…
AI has massive implications for biosecurity, including the creation of biological weapons.
There's growing concern that a lethal man-made pathogen will emerge, and we won't be ready for it.
Researchers asked 272 experts to evaluate 24 different risks.
Digital resiliency and technology leaders at a June 3 Expert Voices roundtable urged each other to "lean in" to AI tools.
