How worried should we be about AI biorisk? - by Celia Ford

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The barriers to bioattacks are hard to identify — and it's even harder to know whether AI is reducing them

How worried should we be about AI biorisk? The barriers to bioattacks are hard to identify — and it's even harder to know whether AI is reducing them Celia Ford Feb 26, 2026 19 2 4 Share Image: MR.Cole_Photographer / Getty Images Humans have come up with lots of creative ways to kill each other over the last few millennia. Our deadliest mass murders, however, have mostly been incidental. When Europeans colonized the Americas, their diseases killed far more indigenous people than guns. An estimated five to eight million Aztecs died of smallpox between 1519 and 1520 alone. In the summer of 1763,

How worried should we be about AI biorisk? - by Celia Ford

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