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Washington Post urges US Manhattan Project for biodefense
Original: Opinion | AI capabilities mean America needs a Manhattan Project for biodefense
A Washington Post opinion piece argues that rapid advances in artificial intelligence have made it easier to design dangerous biological agents, and that the United States needs a Manhattan Project-scale national effort on biodefense. The author calls for a concentrated government program to develop defenses, detection and countermeasures matching the pace of AI-driven biological risk.
Why now: Growing concern that AI tools are lowering barriers to creating biological threats is prompting debate over a large-scale government response.
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- Opinion | AI capabilities mean America needs a Manhattan Project for biodefense · The Washington Post
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