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This article addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence and biosecurity, specifically focusing on the need for clear regulatory triggers rather than voluntary corporate safeguards to prevent AI-driven biological threats. It highlights current policy discussions surrounding the White House Accord on Superintelligence and the challenges of defining actionable thresholds for emerging dual-use technologies.
I served as the White House’s top biosecurity official. Here’s what I’m watching for with AI
AI biosecurity needs more than voluntary safeguards. It needs clear triggers for action before a crisis.
In the White House Situation Room, the hardest calls were never the obvious emergencies. What kept me up were the nights when a fragment of information came in and the debate wasn’t about what to do. It was about whether anything concerning was happening at all. In 2023, my team and I were assessing the nation’s pandemic influenza plans when the Situation Room notified me that H5N1 influenza had infected a father and killed his daughter in a remote Cambodian village. Was the virus spreading between people – the start of a pandemic that could kill millions? The national security adviser asked whether to brief President Biden immediately.…
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