Assessing the Accelerated Threat of Bioterrorism in the Age of AI

This Note argues that the accelerated use and growth of easily accessible artificial intelligence systems will result in malicious individuals using artificial intelligence to engage in acts of bioterrorism. Part I will discuss how artificial intelligence works generally. Part II will discuss how AI can be used in carrying out attacks of bioterrorism. Part III will discuss suggested governmental regulations, including the creation of a new Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence Regulating Department that can conduct the evaluation and limitation of publicly available information, use threat modeling to strengthen biosecurity measures, make artificial intelligence use in terrorism a criminal offense, and collaborate with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in producing specific regulations to address bioterrorism threats. This abstract has been taken from the author's introduction.