Bioweapons fears in the USA

Why terror is becoming more dangerous in the age of AI

Not only this symbolic image was computer-generated by an AI algorithm. Such systems can also search for chemical substances - in the wrong hands with unforeseeable consequences.(Bild: Антон Сальников – stock.adobe.com (KI-generiert))

The US government is preparing for a new terrorist threat. Readily available chemicals could be used with the help of AI algorithms to develop deadly chemical weapons or new pathogens that could cause a pandemic within a very short space of time.

It has often been reported that bomb-making plans can be found on the internet and the vastness of the darknet. The suspect who stole chemicals from his employer in Ternitz, which were presumably intended to be used for a bomb attack on the subsequently canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, is just the latest example of a perpetrator who wanted to cause a massacre using makeshift means. However, explosives are not the only weapon that terrorists are interested in. In the USA, there is currently a particular fear of attacks using chemical or biological weapons from computers. This was prompted by a disturbing demonstration at the White House.