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.
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.
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The convergence of artificial intelligence and the life sciences is reshaping what’s possible in biology, delivering major advances–ranging from accelerating vaccine discovery to advancing new tools for mitigating the effects of climate change–and new risks. NTI | bio’s AIxBio Horizon Scan looks ahead to where AIxBio capabilities are headed over the coming years.
A growing number of the world’s leading experts in health security and the life sciences are warning that unfettered open access to biological data could help AI design dangerous pathogens and are calling for safeguards on high-risk data to prevent misuse of AIxBio tools. Their warnings represent growing momentum behind an idea that NTI has championed: using managed access as a tool to strengthen biosecurity and safeguard rapidly advancing AIxBio capabilities.
Some of the world’s largest AI companies—Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic—have warned that their models could be misused to cause harm with biology. The India AI Impact Summit is a critical moment for policymakers, scientists, developers, and biosecurity experts to work together on responsible governance that reduces AIxBio risks.
Strengthening nuclear fail-safe measures and applying and adapting principles governing the use of outer space for peaceful purposes are essential to preventing nuclear use and maintaining strategic stability.
Life science research moves quickly. But not all research carries the same level or type of risk. For funders, the challenge is to identify risks early—without slowing critical research. And now there's a straightforward tool to help address this.
Cassandra Varanka is NTI’s director of legislative affairs. Since joining NTI in July 2025, she has focused on developing and advancing legislative strategies to shape impactful policy outcomes that further the organization’s agenda in the U.S. government.
In a political climate that feels more divided than ever, it seems nearly impossible to agree on anything—except, as it turns out, arms control. A YouGov poll commissioned by NTI and ReThink Media found that 91 percent of Americans support capping U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, including 89 percent of Trump voters.
Global health security —the ability to protect against the negative impacts of disease outbreaks — is too important to be left solely to the public sector. Industry has a vital interest in helping countries better prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.
Mirror life operates outside the assumptions that underpin modern biosafety, biosecurity, and medical surveillance, meaning the policy challenge is not only what to regulate — but how to govern a technology that doesn’t yet exist.
Aigerim Seitenova is a human rights professional and nuclear justice advocate from Kazakhstan. A third-generation survivor of Soviet nuclear testing in Semipalatinsk, she co-founded the Qazaq Nuclear Frontline Coalition and produced the documentary JARA – Radioactive Patriarchy: Women of Qazaqstan.
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