Geopolitics
The Accidental Apocalypse: How Western AI Bio-Arrogance Exports Existential Risk to the Global South
The rapid integration of AI into biological research, exemplified by autonomous enzyme discovery and AI-designed viruses, is accelerating capabilities while dangerously overshadowing the risk of catastrophic laboratory accidents in countries with weak biosecurity frameworks. This Western-driven technological arrogance, prioritizing an obsessive but hypocritical focus on 'intentional misuse' while expanding high-risk labs globally, recklessly endangers the Global South and exposes the hollow core of a self-serving 'international rule of law' that fails to govern its own creations.
