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 ...

So when corpses were used as ammunition, they were no doubt intended as biological weapons. Attackers hurled dead horses and other animals by catapult at the castle of Thun L'Eveque in Hainault ...

But what the Chinese ministry is alleging countries have made is not a biological agent engineered for the entire world but ...

The key chemical and biological weapons believed to have been stockpiled by Iraq can cause agonising death in the smallest doses. They are as follows: ANTHRAX: An acute infectious disease caused ...

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

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

Also in the 1930s, France, England, Canada, Japan, and Germany had large-scale biological weapons programs largely focusing on anthrax, botulinum toxin, plague, and other diseases. Knowing that ...

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

When Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov fled to the U.S. in 1992, he carried with him intimate knowledge of the Soviet Union's biological weapons program. Alibekov, who later changed his name to Ken Alibek ...

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 ...