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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or states to engineer a pathogen that would spread faster, resist vaccines better and ...

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 ...

Powerful new artificial intelligence (AI) models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists ... with the latter’s program continuing even after signing the Biological Weapons ...