WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Jon Ossoff issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is raising urgent concerns about bioterrorism and biosafety associated with artificial intelligence.
Sen. Ossoff launched an inquiry with Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Michael Kratsios after researchers and CEOs of several AI companies signed an open letter (https://screendna.org/) urging the Federal government to implement mandatory screening of orders for artificially generated nucleic acids due to concerns that artificial intelligence could be misused by bad actors to produce chemical and biological weapons.
In October 2023, President Biden directed the Federal government to address the misuse...