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 Trump and Xi summit may offer an opportunity to begin filling the leadership vacuum on AI advances, especially with respect to bioweapons. If the reports from AI companies are correct, it’s imperative that Presidents Trump and Xi start this work now.
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.
On November 3, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) convened U.S. and Chinese experts for a virtual workshop on reducing nuclear risks in the U.S.-China relationship.
Eight decades of managing nuclear risks offers potential lessons for governing artificial intelligence (AI). Understanding how well that experience applies to rapidly evolving technology, and where the parallels break down is essential to getting AI governance right.
Policy decisions made today will shape the world's ability to prevent and respond to biological threats for decades to come. Meeting that challenge will require more than expert analysis. It will require collaboration across generations of leaders to engage policymakers and the public.
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.
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