AXIOS May 9, 2024
Biosecurity experts say AI-driven “biosurveillance” could help spot the next pandemic or biological attack.
The big picture: An initial surge of concern over the threat from AI-generated superbugs and bioweapons has begun to ebb as AI’s advantages in biodefense emerge.
Yes, but: The experts Axios spoke to at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness agreed that “biosurveillance” is a label that will repel people. They hope to reframe it as “biosafety” or “bio transparency.”
How it works: Collecting better biological data, and running it through AI, “might be the difference between managing a really small outbreak” and “letting it spread and become a much bigger problem,” Stephanie Batalis, a Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology fellow, told Axios.
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