There has been no sign such weapons have been used in the Ukraine conflict, but the construction of new labs at Sergiev Posad-6 is being closely watched by U.S. intelligence agencies and ...

In 1975, the Soviet government ratified the UN Biological Weapons Convention, even as it refused to recognize that it had, in effect, been working on the development of biological weapons.

Biological weapons are the “poor man’s atom bomb,” said Yong-Bee Lim, the deputy director of the Converging Risks Lab and Biosecurity Projects Manager at the Council on Strategic Risks.

The Homeland security secretary was at the Maryland facility with Senator Rand Paul and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

If an AI is powerful enough to make beneficial scientific discoveries, it's also capable of being used for harm, OpenAI says.

“SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”… ...

Numerous examples from independent testers and journalists have shown that AI systems — including OpenAI’s — can be tricked ...

Could AI Create Deadly Biological Weapons? Let’s Not Find Out. Powerful new models, combined with novel lab tools, could make it much easier to develop killer viruses.

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.

Chengxuan Han is accused by federal government of sending four packages to the U.S. from China containing concealed material ...