AI/Policy

AI can already design working viruses from scratch Most DNA synthesis providers don't screen orders publicly Screening the synthesis step matters more than banning research Sixteen of the 302 AI-generated bacteriophage genomes that

Fabricated citations rose twelvefold in three years Math enforces rigor; engineering never matched it Reproducibility checks could close the gap A biomedical audit released in 2026 found that one in every 277 papers indexed on PubMed

Agentic AI beats humans at narrow, verifiable tasks Citation fabrication has grown twelvefold since 2023 Trust checkable answers; verify everything else In 2023, roughly 1 in every 2,828 published papers contained a fab

AI didn't cause these attacks, old unpatched systems did AI just made flaws faster to find Fix deployment, not the models Recent cyberattacks involving artificial intelligence have sparked calls for tighter control over AI models.