Applications are open for the 2025 NTI | bio Next Generation Biosecurity Delegation. This is a great opportunity to gain experience with international biosecurity engagement & meet thought leaders and policy makers in the field. You can learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/4bene94r

US Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy’s announcement that the government will cancel or otherwise alter up to $500M in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines, the technology used to respond to COVID-19, is a grave mistake. Check out our statement here: www.nti.org/news/hhs-can...

OpenAI has classified its new ChatGPT Agent model as having a “High capability in the biological domain." Check out this new blog post by Nikki Teran outlining OpenAI's proactive biosecurity approach to safeguard their new model against misuse: www.nti.org/risky-busine...

The new Executive Order on "Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research" suggests some promising actions to protect moddern bioscience and biotech against misuse, but it also threatens crucial research that protects Americans from biological threats. www.nti.org/news/executi...

NTI applauds today’s announcement that the International Negotiating Body of the WHO has reached a deal on the language of the Pandemic Accord. Pandemics pose a global threat & this proposed agreement is proof the world can unify to reduce the most catastrophic risks. www.nti.org/news/nti-sta...

Great opportunity to join the NTI | bio team. Come work with us! www.nti.org/job-listing/...

"On this World Health Day 2025 as US domestic & global health policies undergo a realignment the world must recommit to address both the urgent and the underlying health challenges that shape our lives." New blog post by NTI's Lauren Maynor, Sara Kaufman & David Stiefel. www.nti.org/risky-busine...

Great new piece in Science Magazine by Richard Stone about the Biological Weapons Convention at its 50-year anniversary, and the need to modernize it to meet 21st century challenges. www.science.org/content/arti...

Excellent post by Greg Butchello outlining how NTI | bio defines biosecurity. Since its emergence, the term “biosecurity” has had a variety of meanings. We define biosecurity as: policies and practices that protect against the deliberate misuse of biology to cause harm." www.nti.org/risky-busine...

I had a great conversation with A'ndre Gonawela at the Burn Bag podcast about vital steps that we need to take to bolster biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. You can check it out here 👇 burnbag.buzzsprout.com/1225250/epis...

Yesterday NTI and RAND co-hosted an event at the Paris AI Action Summit on AI Safety Institutes and AIxBio governance--in conversation with biosecurity experts & AI model developers. We had productive discussions among an impressive international group of experts ...

The U.S. must continue to lead on AI safety & I'm optimistic this can be done while balancing competitiveness considerations. The Trump Administration has an opportunity to strike the right balance between AI safety and advancing innovation in the United States. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In one of the first acts of his second administration, President Trump has ordered U.S. withdrawal from WHO, again. Protecting Americans does not happen by turning our back on the world’s largest public health organization; it happens by keeping our seat at the table and negotiating for change.

NTI|bio is working to safeguard capabilities at the convergence of AI & the life sciences. We've established a global forum to discuss governance approaches &practical tools to safeguard AIxBio capabilities + we're exploring novel technical guardrails for biodesign tools www.nti.org/about/progra...

OpenAI has announced their o3 and o3-mini simulated reasoning models, which for the first time match human levels on the ARC Artificial General Intelligence benchmark. This is a major leap forward in AGI-relevant performance and a very big deal. arstechnica.com/information-...

Eva Siegmann on the need to establish more effective guardrails for AIxbio capabilities to prevent AI-enabled bioterrorism. www.nti.org/atomic-pulse...

Last week NTI | bio participated in Biological Weapons Convention working group discussions, organizing two side events that proposed new solutions to prevent bioweapons development & use by states. www.nti.org/news/nti-bio...

Yesterday we launched our new essay collection on disincentivizing biological weapons. Our side event to launch this work took place on the margins of Biological Weapons Convention meetings in Geneva... www.nti.org/analysis/art...

Sarah Bates is a salmon boat captain. October is usually a busy time on the waterfront, but now, “it’s kind of a ghost town,” she said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/c...

As H5N1 continues to spread among farm animals, we're playing a deadly game of Russian roulette with pandemic risk. H5N1 in pigs creates new risks of mixing among flu variants, which could lead to the emergence of an H5N1 strain capable of human to human transmission. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/o...

NTI | bio is continuing to advance global discussions to safeguard AIxBio capabilities. This fall, we convened two successful technical working groups on developing guardrails for biodesign tools & on horizon scanning, risk assessment, and AI model evaluations. www.nti.org/atomic-pulse...

Gabby Essix shares her perspective on the Biological Weapons Convention at 50 and the path forward to build a safer future. www.nti.org/atomic-pulse...

Check out our new report on guardrails for AI biodesign tools. As these tools become more capable of designing novel biological systems—with tremendous potential benefits—we should also recognize that BDTs could be exploited. NTI is working to develop solutions. www.nti.org/news/nti-bio...

The U.S. needs much more robust monitoring of H5N1 flu so we can rapidly detect and contain deadly infectious disease threats. "Failure to control H5N1 among American livestock could have global consequences, and this demands urgent attention." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...

This critique of media involvement in shaping our political discourse has a lot of explanatory power. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/o...