The New Bioweapons: How Synthetic Biology Could Destabilize the World

Over the past 60 years, researchers have developed sophisticated understandings of both molecular and human biology, allowing for the development of remarkably deadly and effective pathogens. 

• They have figured out how to create viruses that can evade immunity.
• They have learned how to evolve existing viruses to spread more easily through the air, and how to engineer viruses to make them more deadly...

Either way, it is clear that biological technology, now boosted by artificial intelligence, has made it simpler than ever to produce diseases.
Should a human-made or human-improved pathogen escape or be released from a lab, the consequences could be catastrophic...