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Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable ... continuing even after signing the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972. The Pentagon thinks ...

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 ...

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 ...