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.
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”.
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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.
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.
As NTI celebrates 25 years of impact, we remain committed to reducing the risks of accidental release and deliberate misuse of life science innovations, strengthening global biosecurity, and guiding efforts to govern emerging technologies.
The policy challenge ahead is ensuring that safeguards, governance frameworks, and security practices continue to responsibly scale alongside the technology. If they do, society can capture AI's enormous benefits while keeping emerging risks firmly under control.
Multisectoral collaboration is a fundamental requirement for stronger health security.
Innovation requires security, and security requires innovation. Congress needs to act decisively to ensure U.S. leadership in biotechnology is paired with governance that keeps its development secure.
As the capabilities of biological AI tools continue to advance at an accelerating pace, it is vital that DNA synthesis providers and others in the biosecurity space embrace new guardrails to prevent their misuse.
OpenAI's latest release, ChatGPT Agent, represents a significant leap forward in artificial intelligence capabilities—and with it comes a thoughtful, proactive approach to managing the biosecurity risks that advanced AI systems can pose.
Artificial Intelligence has many potential applications and consequences for strategic risk. Here is NTI’s work on it so far.
NTI Seminar: A Stable Nuclear Future? Autonomous Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Stability with UPenn’s Michael C. Horowitz
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