AI leaders are worried that powerful AI models could be used to design highly contagious viruses that could be ordered online from gene-synthesis providers.

The United States ultimately canceled its bioweapons program for practical, rather than moral, reasons: bioweapons were too dangerous and too unpredictable to be weaponized responsibly. During the ...

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In January 2024, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Beijing’s most senior diplomat, Wang Yi, held a low-key meeting in Bangkok. There, tentative plans were reportedly made for a ...

AI Bioweapons? Scientists Agree to Policies to Reduce Risk of Human Disaster Over 100 scientists, including Ivy League researchers and Microsoft's Chief Scientific Officer, sign on to research ...