The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the U.S. and the Soviet Union stockpiled ...

Researchers are divided on whether the rapid improvement in AI technologies in recent years makes bioterror or war more ...

ChatGPT-parent OpenAI has announced an independent board oversight committee focused on safety and security. It was ...

Richard Lugar is remembered not just in his home state of Indiana but across the world for many accomplishments throughout ...

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or ...

OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, is trying something different. Its newly released AI system isn’t just designed ...

The nuclear analogy offers some lessons for mitigating the risks of AI, but the differences between the two techs are ...

Richard Lugar is remembered not just in his home state of Indiana but across the world for many accomplishments throughout ...

Powerful new models, combined with novel lab tools, could make it much easier to develop killer viruses. The world should ...

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue ...

If the Biological Weapons Convention can’t be toughened because of diplomatic frictions, like-minded countries should at least agree on a set of best practices, as they’ve begun to do with AI.

More specific AI programs trained on biological data, known as biological design tools, are even more powerful. Over time, such programs could speed the development of entirely new pathogens with ...