AIxBio Global Forum
Facilitating international governance to reduce biosecurity risks at the convergence of AI and the life sciences.
AI & Tech
Emerging tech holds promise and risk.
NTI stays ahead of the curve.
Emerging tech holds promise and risk.
Rapid scientific and technical advances create challenges and opportunities to reducing WMD risks.
Governments are outpaced in adapting to new technologies and providing needed oversight. Nuclear facilities, weapons systems, and bio labs are vulnerable to accidents and miscalculation.
6 Only six countries received a full score for cybersecurity in the 2023 NTI Nuclear Security Index
24% The 2023 NTI Nuclear Security Index found that 1/4 of countries with major nuclear facilities don't have basic cybersecurity measures in place
89% In the U.S. nuclear modernization plan, 41 of 46 weapons and related systems examined will receive new or upgraded digital components, with implications for cybersecurity
Nuclear
Nuclear facilities and weapons systems are not immune from sophisticated cyberattacks that could facilitate the theft of weapons-usable nuclear materials or a catastrophic act of sabotage. Even nuclear weapons command-and-control systems could be compromised. Governments are not keeping pace with the threat.
Biological
Today, risks of a catastrophic biological events are magnified by a rapidly changing and interconnected world, increasingly political instability, urbanization, climate change, and rapid technology advances that make it easier, cheaper, and faster to create and engineer pathogens. Health systems, security, science, and governments are struggling to adapt.
Featured Projects
The Convergence of AI and Emerging Technologies and Nuclear Security
Examining the implications of AI and other emerging technologies for nuclear security – both opportunities and challenges.
Reducing AIxBio Risks
Strengthening AI governance to safeguard AI-enabled tools for engineering living systems from misuse.
Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction Initiative
Advances in biotechnology outpace national governments’ ability to provide needed oversight to prevent accidents or deliberate misuse of dangerous biological agents.
Past Project Cyber-Nuclear Weapons Study Group
Developing Options to Address Cyber Threats to Nuclear Weapons
NTI stays ahead of the curve
Announcing FutureSafe — NTI’s New AI and Emerging Tech Program — Led by Dimitri Kusnezov
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 | bio, RAND Advance AIxBio Safety During Paris AI Action Summit
NTI Advances Agenda to Tackle Future Challenges
Developing Guardrails for AI Biodesign Tools
Reducing Cyber Risks to Nuclear Weapons: Proposals from a U.S.-Russia Expert Dialogue
Nuclear Weapons in the New Cyber Age
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences
Education Center