How AI is supercharging bioweapons

Last month, Donald Trump raised the spectre of biological weapons
at the UN, calling on the world to help him end their
development.


He said AI could help enforce the ban on these weapons.


But scientists are increasingly concerned that technologies like
AI and gene editing tools could also make them more accessible –
and even more dangerous.


So we’re asking: has the threat of biological weapons returned?


We are joined by Dr Brett Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Security
and Public Policy at the University of Bath. His research focuses
on both the history and contemporary threat posed by biological
and chemical weapons.


Plus we speak to Dr Ken Alibek, Former Deputy Chief of the Soviet
Union's Biological Weapons, who lifted the lid on their secret
bioweapons programmes to find out what threat Russia poses today.


Producer: Sophie O'Sullivan


Executive Producer: Louisa Wells


Studio Operator: Meghan Searle


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Dr Brett Edwards hosts the Poisons and Pestilence Podcast on the
history of biological and chemical weapons and warfare.


Dr Ken Alibek is the author of 'Biohazard'.


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