Can AI Help Build a Bioweapon? RAND's 9-Layer Plan to Stop It
RAND says no single safeguard can stop AI-assisted bioweapons, and lays out nine layered defences. Here is what the report argues, why it lands now, and where it is still guesswork.
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UK Biobank Reopens After a Leak That Exposed AI's Privacy Problem
UK Biobank's Research Analysis Platform reopens this September after a data security incident, and a 2026 study shows why AI is quietly eroding old promises of genetic anonymity.
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When the Machines Start Doing Bioethics Too
The August 2026 American Journal of Bioethics issue confronts AI agents moving into clinical and research operations, and asks an uncomfortable question: what happens when those same agents start doing the work of bioethicists?
Could AI Replace Human Peer Reviewers? Rethinking Scientific Peer Review in the Age of AI
QED Science's AI ranked 57,455 bioRxiv preprints and named a 'top 1%'. Blinded experts sided with the machine over journal prestige in 75% of cases. We examine the evidence, the backlash, and what AI triage means for pandemic-era science.
