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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Large language models such as OpenAI Inc.’s ChatGPT can synthesize vast amounts of knowledge rapidly: In one experiment, a chatbot advised a group of MIT students about how to engineer four ...