
Reducing Risks at the Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences
Strengthening AI governance to safeguard AI-enabled tools for engineering living systems from misuse.
Accelerating advances in artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, robotics and automation, big data, ubiquitous sensing, space commercialization, and other technologies are transforming the technological foundation of human civilization. These technologies are likely to radically expand and converge with each other to produce both intended and unintended consequences for nuclear and biological security.
FutureSafe works with governments, industry, academia, and NGOs to create a more comprehensive understanding of the risks and opportunities posed by AI and emerging technologies to nuclear and biological threats and to implement innovative solutions and policy responses. The program works to strengthen nuclear and biosecurity, to develop guardrails for risks associated with AI-nuclear and AI-biological risks, and to develop and promote positive applications of AI to strengthen nuclear security, biosecurity, and pandemic preparedness.
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Program efforts are guided by a high-level Science and Technology Advisory group.
Strengthening AI governance to safeguard AI-enabled tools for engineering living systems from misuse.
NTI will join world leaders and policy makers at the 2025 Munich Security Conference (MSC) where NTI Co-Chair and CEO Ernest J. Moniz and colleagues will host multiple side events focused on reducing nuclear, biological, and emerging technology threats imperiling humanity.
As artificial intelligence and emerging technologies continue to disrupt global security, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) convened its Science and Technology Advisory Group to identify and discuss opportunities for NTI to anticipate and proactively direct its efforts to tackle future challenges.
Advances in AI and other disruptive technologies are transforming the foundations of human civilization with intended and unintended consequences for global security. To address the risks and capitalize on the opportunities associated with these advancements, NTI is launching FutureSafe: AI and Emerging Technology, a new program to be led by Dimitri Kusnezov.
NTI hosted a wide-ranging discussion on the implications of artificial intelligence technologies for nuclear and biosecurity at its Board of Directors dinner in Washington, D.C.
New paper explores the possible applications of AI to nuclear-weapons systems and assesses the benefits, risks, and strategic stability implications.