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Assessing the Dangers of AI and Biosecurity

EXPERT INTERVIEW — Of the many potential threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI), few are more alarming than the possibility that AI would be [...] More

Getting the Intelligence Edge with High-Risk, High-Payoff Research

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Director Jason Matheny worries a lot about national security risks that probably aren’t headlining [...] More

The Threat from Biological Weapons

Today, interest in the development of biological weapons is the mark of a desperate pariah state or terrorist group. International efforts have led [...] More

Countering Bioterror

Advances in biotechnology have brought a wide range of benefits in health and medical research, food and agriculture, even manufacturing. At the same [...] More

The Security Impact of Biotech

There is increasingly rapid progress in understanding how biological systems work. This gives us new tools to meaningfully manipulate those systems [...] More

Biotechnology’s Dark Side

Right now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the Pentagon is trying to figure out how to create artificial life forms and [...] More

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