…plans to ‘fight through' it
"FORT BELVOIR, Va.— AI is "dramatically lowering the barrier" to creating biological weapons, according to the Army's updated biodefense strategy—even as it gives commanders and troops a better picture of how biological threats, both natural and manmade, will shape future battlefields, service officials say.
The new strategy aims to prepare the Army to "deploy, fight, and win decisively in a bio-contested environment" by 2035, via new training, advanced early warning, and hardened equipment. But its leaders and bio-threat experts are already working to overhaul how the service thinks about and responds to biological threats. AI will be central to this new era of biodefense, whether advising in the disposition of forces or countering enemy attempts to sow confusion and panic about outbreaks, according to officials who spoke to reporters Tuesday.
In 2023, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told U.S. lawmakers that AI could "widen the range of actors with the technical capability to conduct a large-scale biological attack," a scenario he said could come to pass within "two to three years."
The scenario is drawing nearer. This week, a new paper out of Stanford described how feeding genetic data into high-performance AI models could lead to a new kind of virus that can infect bacteria, showing it's ability to breakthrough the immunity barriers of other organisms…"
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