Bioweapons created using artificial intelligence (AI) have become Washington’s latest security obsession, Bloomberg reports.

Tools like ChatGPT could help terrorists identify powerful biological agents and obtain the materials needed to create them.

Before long, AI will be able to not just help recreate existing pathogens but develop potentially more dangerous ones as well.

AI could help create weapons of mass destruction, and not the kind that militaries build in remote deserts, but ones that can be made in a basement or school lab.

The combination of innovations like synthetic biology and artificial intelligence could be a nightmare for governments that are slow to implement surveillance systems.