AI and biosecurity: The need for governance

Science. 2024 Aug 23;385(6711):831-833. doi: 10.1126/science.adq1977. Epub 2024 Aug 22.

Doni Bloomfield^{1

2}, Jaspreet Pannu^{1

3

4}, Alex W Zhu¹, Madelena Y Ng⁵, Ashley Lewis⁶, Eran Bendavid^{3

4}, Steven M Asch⁴, Tina Hernandez-Boussard^{5

6}, Anita Cicero¹, Tom Inglesby¹

¹ Center for Health Security, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
² School of Law, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Health Policy, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁶ Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Abstract

Governments should evaluate advanced models and if needed impose safety measures.