Health officials in Illinois turned to an AI chatbot to try to solve a puzzling outbreak linked to a county fair. But whether ...

If you talk to staff at the top AI labs, you’ll hear a lot of stories about how the future could go fantastically well—or terribly badly. And of all the ways that AI might cause harm to the human race ...

Could new AI technology help unleash a devastating pandemic? That’s a concern top government officials and tech leaders have raised in recent months. One study last summer found that students could ...

Could artificial intelligence tools be used to stop the next pandemic before it starts? During the Covid pandemic, new technology developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke universities didn’t ...

The Department of Health and Human Services would be required to implement a pandemic preparedness and response program that leverages artificial intelligence under new bipartisan Senate legislation.

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Recent developments in AI could mean that human-caused pandemics are five times more likely than they were just a year ago, according to a study of top experts' predictions shared exclusively with ...

Rick Bright knows a thing or two about what works in healthcare. The former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has served under multiple presidential ...

Covid-19 killed millions but four years to the day after the WHO declared an international emergency, countries cannot agree a treaty to head off a new pandemic ...