Researchers play down AI apocalypse fears, citing hurdles to creating a killer virus
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Biosecurity and cybersecurity experts are drawing a line between scary demos and operational reality—physical constraints, lab controls, and testing regimes still matter. For boards, this argues for balanced investment: harden your real attack surfaces today while tracking AI-bio risk as a specialized, longer-horizon governance topic, not tomorrow’s guaranteed catastrophe.
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