Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence research companies, has issued a stark warning about the misuse of powerful AI systems. He cautions ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has claimed that advanced AI models may already possess or are rapidly approaching the knowledge required to help create and deploy biological weapons.

Oct. 5 -- For combatants who lack the money to spend on high-tech killing instruments, biological weapons offer grisly appeal. They are cheap, easy to make, and simple to conceal — and, since Sept. 11 ...

The Pentagon is quietly testing how viruses and microbes behave beyond Earth, betting that space can harden the United States ...

There isn't yet current proof that Tehran is developing or possesses such weapons. Iran is interested in chemical and biological weapons and has made some inquiries regarding the process of acquiring ...

A joint hazard assessment team member takes hazmat readings in a simulated hot zone during Kauai County Exercise 2017 at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii, on Aug. 29, 2017. (Hawaii ...

Explore the fears Putin could resort to using chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction in the ongoing conflict in ...

The investment in Biopreparat reflected a Soviet calculus that biological agents could provide asymmetrical leverage against the West. In the depths of the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched a ...

FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in the Kremlin, MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia supports a call ...

This report offers a summary of the presentations from an international workshop, Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, held October 31 - November 3 ...