Here we highlight the work of NTI and share knowledge, ideas, and viewpoints addressing the crosscutting challenges our world faces—addressing risks while supporting innovation—to make our world safer.
New U.S. DNA screening policy covers federal grantees. What about everyone else?
The executive branch has designed a workable screening system for federally funded science. Congress can close the gap for everyone else, and the text to do it has already been written.
New U.S. DNA screening policy covers federal grantees. What about everyone else?
The executive branch has designed a workable screening system for federally funded science. Congress can close the gap for everyone else, and the text to do it has already been written.
Strategies are just words on paper. Preparedness and readiness for the next biological threat come from exercising, operationalizing, and implementing them. Focus, follow-through, and trust. We need all three because none works alone.
A Conflict in Space Could Go Nuclear. It Doesn’t Have To.
No major power has an interest in an unintended nuclear war. Weapons are now in orbit. The guardrails are not. The time to build them is before a crisis, not during one.
Angela Guo is a high school student from Hong Kong currently studying at Phillips Academy Andover. She has spent the past year researching the impacts of nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands and recently published her first book, “At the Tide’s Mercy: Voices from the Marshallese Exodus”.
Rethinking Insurance and Legal Responsibility for AI-Enabled Biology
As AI expands what is possible in biology, it’s past time the biosecurity, insurance, and legal communities came together to examine what these developments mean for preventing harm and assigning responsibility if it occurs.
Innovation Enables Responsibility: Watermarking to Strengthen DNA Synthesis Screening
The development of SynthID Bio by a major frontier AI lab is an important reminder that responsible development and cutting-edge progress are not mutually exclusive.
Trump-Xi Summit: Perception, Not Capability, May Drive AI-Bioweapons Risks
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.
Bridging Climate Action and Health Security through One Health
Africa’s experience shows why climate change and health cannot be separated. A One Health approach is essential to managing growing risks at the intersection of people, animals, and the environment.
AI Is Moving Into Nuclear Weapons Systems. Fail-Safe Reviews Are Critical.
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.