A new federal taskforce overseeing synthetic biology and artificial intelligence is a welcome step, but Australia remains dangerously ill-equipped to handle the technology’s biosecurity threats, experts have warned.
Former senior public service cybersecurity advisor Janet Egan this week doubled down on calls for tougher biosecurity regulations for AI-grown DNA and RNA, warning that federal government action to date remains “insufficient” for the scale of the national security threat.
Ms Egan …
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