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Ibbotson, Olivia and Shang, Lijun (2025) The fourth industrial revolution: biosecurity education in the age of Artificial Intelligence. CBRNeWorld (Oct25). pp. 18-19. ISSN 2040-2724
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, marked by rapid advances in science and technology (S&T), dawned in the early 21st century. These rapid advances have revolutionised science and life as we know it, while simultaneously increasing the scale of challenges concerning biosecurity. There are many alternative definitions of biosecurity, however, for the purpose of this paper, and the work of our centre, we define biosecurity as “the prevention of natural, accidental, and deliberately caused disease in humans, animals, and plants”. Biosecurity, and the prohibition of biological and chemical weapons relates to the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1975 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
The rapid increase in challenges illustrated in the 21st century, solidifies the need to provide adequate advanced S&T security training to all relevant stakeholders. Of particular concern, when discussing the rising challenges of advanced S&T is the at the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and biosecurity.
Ethical challenges alone for AI and biosecurity are significant in their respective fields; this, however, appears even more perilous where the fields intersect. Ethical challenges include, but are not limited to information hazards, hallucinations, information bias, and controversy of open source research. In this paper, we use AI to illustrate the potential security issues the field of biosecurity are facing and advocate for an International Biological Security Education Network to address these rising challenges.
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