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NTI Bio is a key institutional actor in biosecurity policy; increasingly relevant to AI safety discussions as advanced AI models raise concerns about lowering barriers to biological weapon design.
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Summary
NTI Bio is a program within the Nuclear Threat Initiative focused on reducing global biological risks through policy development, international engagement, and biosecurity initiatives. It works to prevent biological threats—both natural and engineered—by strengthening global health security frameworks and governance. The program is relevant to AI safety discussions around dual-use biotechnology and biosecurity risks amplified by advancing AI capabilities.
Key Points
- •Focuses on reducing catastrophic biological risks through policy, analysis, and international cooperation
- •Addresses both naturally occurring pandemics and deliberately engineered biological threats
- •Relevant to AI safety via biosecurity concerns around AI-enabled bioweapon design and dual-use research
- •Engages governments, international organizations, and the private sector to strengthen biosecurity governance
- •Part of NTI, a prominent think tank historically focused on nuclear, radiological, and biological threat reduction
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[Programs & Projects](https://www.nti.org/about/programs-projects/)
# Global Biological Policy & Programs (NTI \| bio)
- [AI & Tech](https://www.nti.org/area/ai-tech/)
- [Biological](https://www.nti.org/area/biological/)
## About
Biological threats – whether natural, accidental or deliberate — can kill millions, cost billions, and create political and economic instability in individual countries and around the world. The risks and consequences of a global catastrophic biological event can be magnified by weak global health security, increasing urbanization and travel, growing terrorist interest in weapons of mass destruction, and rapid advances in technology that enable newly developed or manipulated pathogens with pandemic potential.
To reduce these risks and strengthen biosecurity, NTI \| bio works with governments, industry, academia, international organizations and NGOs to foster multilateral dialogue, identify weaknesses, and promote systemic change to improve biotechnology governance and national health security capacities.
NTI offers solutions through a range of projects. Among them:
- **Global Health Security Index:** Launched in 2019, the GHS Index is the first comprehensive assessment of the health security capacities of 195 countries. The second edition, now in development, will be released in December.
- **Global Biological Catastrophic Risks:** NTI \| bio’s multi-faceted work in this area includes building a stronger case for decision-makers to prioritize action to counter catastrophic biological risks; establishing new forums focused on preventing the development and use of biological weapons by powerful actors; strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention; and developing innovative solutions for early detection and rapid response.
- **Global Biosecurity Dialogue:** To identify way to advance international biosecurity — and measure those advances — NTI \| bio brings together senior officials from ministries of foreign affairs, health, defense, agriculture and other relevant sectors to build cross-border collaboration; increase the number of countries providing national, regional, or global financial and technical support to strengthen biosecurity; and promote new actions and investments among senior officials to mitigate emerging biological risks.
## Projects
[Africa Health Security Index](https://www.nti.org/about/programs-projects/project/africa-health-security-index/)
#### Africa Health Security Index
Improving epidemic and pandemic preparedness and strengthening biosecurity in Africa.
[AIxBio Global Forum](https://www.nti.org/about/programs-projects/project/aixbio-global-forum/)
#### AIxBio Global Forum
Facilitating international governance to reduce biosecurity risks at the convergence of AI and the life sciences.
[Biosecurity Dialogues](https://www.nti.org/about/programs-projects/project/global-biosecurity
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