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Addressing Bioterrorism in a Changing Scientific and Security Context

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) “to conduct an assessment of strategies of the ...
The Conversation

Cyber attacks? Bioterrorism? To ‘Pace the Frontier’ of AI effectively, we must improve our anticipatory thinking

Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei has published an essay entitled “We Must Pace the Frontier.” He expressed ongoing concerns over the “misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism” and fears ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Bioterrorism — Preparing to Fight the Next War

The United States has become preoccupied with the threat of bioterrorism — the potential for the poisoning of the milk supply with botulinum toxin, the hypothetical dissemination of smallpox by ...
The Conversation

Salad bars and water systems are easy targets for bioterrorists – and America’s monitoring system is woefully inadequate

In October 2019, a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Defending the Homeland from Bioterrorism: Are We Prepared?” The answer was a resounding no. The experts ...