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#biosecurity #artificial intelligence #bioterrorism #bioweapons #chatbots #crispr #existential risk #fact check #gene editing #irkutsk #lab worker death #pneumonic plague

Russian lab worker's death poses low pandemic risk
A woman at a Siberian plague research institute died of pneumonia in October. Experts say the risk of a pandemic is very low, but Russia's secrecy raises concerns.
PolitiFact · 2m
AI could make bioweapons easier to build
Chatbots and gene editing tools are lowering the barriers to creating catastrophic viruses.
Vox · 4m