Rapid advances in AI have significant implications for nuclear and biosecurity, including benefits and risks for nuclear weapons systems and the growing bioeconomy. Managing these new capabilities to ensure they aren’t misused to undermine strategic stability or cause a global biological catastrophe will require coordinated leadership, new guardrails, and innovative policy approaches.
The integration of AI into nuclear systems is underway. The guardrails, safety, and security frameworks needed to understand and manage the consequences are not. A new generation of AI-informed nuclear fail-safe reviews is urgently needed in all countries with nuclear weapons.
Preventing global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRS)
Advances in biotechnology outpace national governments’ ability to provide needed oversight to prevent accidents or deliberate misuse of dangerous biological agents.
Past Project For as long as we have nuclear weapons, the United States must ensure they are safe, secure, and reliable.
NTI | bio and the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University convened a virtual dialogue on risks at the convergence of artificial intelligence and the life sciences (AIxBio).
New YouGov polling commissioned by NTI and ReThink Media finds that nearly 80 percent of registered voters, across party lines, say it is in the interest of U.S. national security to work with China to mitigate catastrophic threats associated with nuclear risks, AI development, and bioterrorism.
NTI | bio and Concordia AI, with technical input from SecureBio, have launched the AIxBio Technical Working Group on Evaluation Practice. Convened through the AIxBio Global Forum, the Working Group will bring together experts from organizations in China, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States that develop or conduct biological capability evaluations of AI systems.
A bipartisan, bicameral group of 17 senior congressional staff completed the inaugural edition of NTI’s new Congressional Leadership Project.
NTI | bio experts will take part in several GHS2026 sessions, including a preview of findings from the forthcoming Africa Health Security (AHS) Index and a timely discussion on strengthening health security partnerships amid declining resources.
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