Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, Stanford, Columbia and NYU are calling for guardrails on certain infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses . Why it matters: Once high-risk biological data hits the open web, it can't be recalled — and regulation won't matter if the knowledge itself is already widely distributed. Driving the news: An international group of more than 100 researchers has endorsed a framework to govern certain biological data the same way we handle sensitive health records. - The debate comes as the Trump administration pushes an aggressive "move fast" AI agenda. - The White House's Genesis Mission — announced in late 2025 — aims to build AI systems trained on massive scientific…
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