biological weapon
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Democratic and Republican senators voiced alarm this week about artificial intelligence's potential use to create a biological weapon.
From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023
The virus was not developed as a biological weapon, and it probably wasn’t genetically engineered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
The U.S. government has over 200 million doses of ACAM2000 stockpiled in case of a biological weapon attack of smallpox.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022
The intelligence community has concluded that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
In one, a mad scientist used HeLa as a biological weapon to spread rabies; another featured yellow house paint made of HeLa cells that could talk.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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