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The Nuclear Threat Initiative (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.
NTI activities will include a tabletop exercise to address risks associated with the convergence of artificial intelligence and the life sciences (AIxBio), a lunch hosted by NTI and the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG), where leaders will issue a statement outlining steps to reverse the slide to nuclear war, and an event focused on engaging the next generation of biosecurity leaders from the Global South.
February 13, 2025
NTI | bio will convene an official side event and tabletop exercise focused on safeguarding rapidly advancing capabilities at the convergence of AI and the life sciences to protect societal benefits while reducing risks of misuse.
The event will bring together a group of senior-level policymakers, technologists, and security experts to discuss a fictional scenario to better understand the risks we face and how to address them before it’s too late. Invited participants will explore how emerging AI-enabled technologies present national and global health security risks which could lead to harm if misused and discuss potential solutions to help governments and international organizations better prepare for and mitigate risks before catastrophe strikes. A detailed report and recommendations from the exercise will be published later in 2025.
Learn more about NTI | bio’s work to strengthen AIxBio governance and safeguard biological design tools from misuse.
February 14, 2025
Joan Rohlfing, president and chief operating officer at NTI, will moderate a discussion exploring how the multipolarization of the international system affects nuclear security. Panelists will include:
The session will be livestreamed via the Munich Security Conference website.
February 15, 2025
EASLG leaders Des Browne, Wolfgang Ischinger, and Ernest J. Moniz will host an official side event and lunch to release a statement headlined “Three Essential Steps for Reversing the Slide to Nuclear War.” More than 60 individuals from 21 countries signed on to the statement, including former ministers of foreign affairs, defense, and energy; former senior military and intelligence leaders; and former ambassadors.
The EASLG statement comes three years after the leaders of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States together affirmed that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” Since that time, the reality of, and potential for, wars involving nuclear-armed nations has created a more urgent context for that declaration. The statement highlights that reducing and eliminating nuclear risk is a common interest for all and a responsibility for all nuclear-armed states, and lays out three urgent practical steps to reduce nuclear risks:
Read the full statement here.
February 15, 2025
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Brown Pandemic Center, and NTI | bio, in partnership with Foreign Policy, will co-convene Global South leaders to address biosecurity issues and the 100 Days Mission, an effort to help the world prepare for the next possible pandemic.
The event will bring together diverse rising voices from the Global South with senior experts and leaders from around the world to explore opportunities and challenges for accelerating global progress toward a secure and equitable pandemic preparedness ecosystem. As emerging technologies enable not only rewards, but also risks, it is vital that the next generation of pandemic decision-makers build safety and security into the broader bioscience and biotechnology research and development enterprise. Discussions will focus on responsibly and sustainably using emerging technologies in pandemic preparedness and response. The goals for the group include:
This effort builds on NTI’s Next Generation Biosecurity Competition, Brown’s Biosecurity Game Changers initiative, and the UNODA Youth4Biosecurity Initiative.
February 15, 2025
Jaime Yassif, vice president, global biological policy and programs at NTI will join the Emerging Threats Forum for a panel discussion called “Protecting the World from Pathogens: Biosecurity in the Age of Transformational Tech”.
The Forum, hosted by Foreign Policy, is an official side event of the Munich Security Conference presented in partnership with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gates Foundation, General Motors, Microsoft, NTI | Bio, Sentinel Bio, and the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP).
Learn more here.
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