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

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

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 ...

The Cold War was a period of rapid technological advancement. Many technologies developed for military applications ...

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 ...

For many decades, so have humans: The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II, and the US and the Soviet Union stockpiled toxins during the Cold War, with the latter’s ...

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in ...