Biological warfare is illegal. Biological weapons have been illegal since the Biological Weapons Convention took effect in ...

AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers ...

The only recent book more disturbing than Jacobsen’s previous one, “Nuclear War: A Scenario,” is her new one, “Biological War ...

The offensive potential is no longer theoretical. We need to develop systems to strengthen public health as quickly as AI is accelerating biological design ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has been found to provide accurate instructions on manufacturing biological weapons.

A Scenario”, by Annie Jacobsen, published this week, maps out the potential consequences of unleashing a genetically modified ...

Cisco researchers bypassed AI safety filters on major chatbots within five turns to elicit biological weapon information. No model was fully resistant. CDC was also blocked.

The development of biological weapons with reliable, predictable effects has proven difficult in the past. Generating militarily efficient and accurate weapons requires considerable skills and ...

US adversaries have developed more advanced biological weapons programs, without prompting much attention from US policymakers. As the United States and its allies continue to exchange fire with Iran, ...

COVID-19 has revitalized the debate on why biological weapons should not be used. International actors have expressed a new interest in the bioweapons threat — one that is focused on preventing and ...

A bioweapons expert likely to head the Trump administration’s top Pentagon post for countering weapons of mass destruction has charged in a new report that the Covid-19 pandemic was probably the ...

Have you ever wondered how our brave soldiers deal with nasty stuff like chemical and biological weapons? Currently, it's a risky and time-consuming process. Soldiers have to suit up in cumbersome NBC ...