@nile11.bsky.socialAI Biosecurity Risks Mount as White House Accord Leaves Gaps
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https://nile1.com/ai-biosecurity-risks-mount-as-white-house-accord-leaves-gaps/
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#aiBiosecurity #anthropic #biologicalWeapons #bipartisanCommissionOnBiodefense #dnaSynthesisProviders #h5n1Influenza #whi
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The lesson of the Russian plague - We still aren’t ready for lab leaks
unherd.com/2026/10/the-...
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So what do we know? It’s important to understand that there is nothing inherently sinister about having an anti-plague institute in Siberia. ...
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@bobmayer.bsky.socialBiological Weapons and Pandemic. Are you prepared? #plague #biologicalweapons #biologicalwarfare #pandemic youtu.be/e8w4pFDaryI
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RFI: Fatal laboratory-acquired infection in Irkutsk Region, Russia; possible pneumonic plague; 197 contacts hospitalized for observation
beaconbio.org/en/report/?r...
Summary (updating) of the information available about the #Irkutsk outbreak.
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Public Health Preparedness: Action Needed to Address National and Biosecurity Risks Associated with Disposal of Federal Laboratory Equipment
www.gao.gov/products/gao...
[PDF available]
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The GAO found that from fiscal 2022 through ...
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Scientists push back on Anthropic's AI extinction warnings
aiweekly.co/alerts/scien...
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Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute in New York City, calls the doomsday framing "fear-mongering" and ...
@ban-cbw.bsky.social#BiologicalWeapons #Plague #Russia #USA
Notes from the Field: Fatal Pneumonic Plague — Coconino County, Arizona, July 2025
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Plague is also indigenous in parts of the USA.
Last week, the US CDC published a report on a fatal case last year.
While unrelated to the ...
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AI biohazard hype must not divert attention from the real risks we face now
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Access to powerful analytical equipment has become more widespread and cheaper since 2001. Benchtop DNA synthesizers ...
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It’s not just misuse: AI-enabled biological research also runs the risk of accidents
www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/i...
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These incidents do not demonstrate that AI will cause more laboratory accidents. But ...
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According to one of the versions, the deceased from the plague in Shelekhov worked as a laboratory assistant and smashed the test tube with the causative agent of infection
baikal-journal.ru/2026/10/02/p...
Note: The victim was ...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague
www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a ...
@alczarnecki.bsky.socialA history prof, “It’s only a war crime, when the other side does it.”
#BiologicalWeapons #Unit731 #WW2 #KoreanWar
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It’s Too Easy to Use AI to Develop Bioweapons
mindgard.ai/blog/easy-to...
[This is the full blog reporting of the jailbreak findings about Chinese AI by Mindgard.]
Key Takeaways
* Jim Nightingale from Mindgard ...
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Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chinese AI developer Moonshot is conducting an internal review after researchers were able to persuade two of its popular Kimi models ...
@maqsoodasi.bsky.socialChinese #AI developer #Moonshot is conducting an internal review after researchers were able to persuade two of its popular #Kimi models to tell them how to make #BiologicalWeapons and carry out #assassinations
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The AI Threat We’re Not Talking About
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The word combines “ablate,” meaning to cut out or strip away, and “obliterate.” Apt, because abliterated AI models have had ethical guardrails (refusal vectors) ...
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Let’s Get Specific About These Doomsday Scenarios
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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To get from misaligned, superintelligent AI to human annihilation requires at least two more steps in the chain. The first is for the AI to ...
@ban-cbw.bsky.social#BiologicalWeapons #Toxin #Ricin #Poisoning
Accidental Castor Bean (Ricinus communis) Poisoning in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review
www.cureus.com/articles/517...
( #OpenSource - PDF available)
Castor bean (Ricinus communis) poisoning is an uncommon but ...
@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialIn #OperationSeaSpray, starting #ThisDayInHistory in 1950, the #USNavy intentionally sprayed the bacteria #SerratiaMarcescens & #BacillusGlobigii into the #SanFrancisco air for six days, infecting every resident, as a #BiologicalWeapons test – a thing the military did 239 times.
