Artificial intelligence (AI) was behind deepfakes, originated in China, about the existence of US laboratories allegedly developing biological weapons in Kazakhstan.
Reuters reported citing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 2024 homeland threat assessment that last year, a Chinese government-controlled news site using a generative AI platform pushed a previously circulated false claim that the United States was running a lab in Kazakhstan to create biological weapons for use against China.
According to DHS, China and other adversaries are developing AI technologies that could undermine U.S. cyber defenses, including generative AI programs that support malware attacks.
The Reuters report says that the Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. from AI technologies developed by China and Russia, as U.S. adversaries could use AI to wage aggressive cyberattacks or even create potent biological weapons.
Zauresh Zhumadilova, director general of the National Scientific Center of Especially Dangerous Infections under the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, earlier denied as untrue media reports about the existence of Pentagon biological laboratories in Kazakhstan, Eurasian Star reported in March 2024.
According to Zhumadilova, all laboratories in Kazakhstan belong to the government and are controlled by the country’s Ministry of Health.
