Report Launch: The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences
Amid significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI), a new NTI | bio report, "The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences: Safeguarding Technology, Rethinking Governance, and Preventing Catastrophe," released in London on the margins of the UK government’s AI Safety Summit, recommends urgent action and oversight by governments, industry, and the scientific community to reduce risks associated with AI-enabled capabilities to engineer living systems.
AI-bio technologies offer tremendous benefits for modern bioscience and bioengineering. They can support the rapid development of vaccines and therapeutics, enable the development of new materials, foster economic development, and help fight climate change. However, AI tools and capabilities that enable the engineering of living systems also could be accidentally or deliberately misused to cause significant harm, which could result in a global biological catastrophe.
Learn more and explore the report at www.nti.org