# Biosecurity **Entity class:** Security and public-health domain ## Definition **Biosecurity** protects populations, agriculture, laboratories, supply chains, and institutions against biological risks arising from natural outbreaks, accidents, deliberate misuse, or technological change. It joins public health, intelligence, biotechnology, emergency management, and national security. ## Relevance to this collection It connects [[wiki/Public Health|Public Health]], [[wiki/Defense Threat Reduction Agency|Defense Threat Reduction Agency]], [[wiki/Weapon of Mass Destruction|WMD]], [[wiki/Jason Matheny|Jason Matheny]], and [[wiki/Dual-Use Technology|Dual-Use Technology]]. ## Relationships - **master collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **intellectual neighborhood:** [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “When the capability to kill millions passes from nation-states to small groups, safety stops being a policy preference and becomes the price of civilization's continued existence.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public, 2026* [[reminders/Existential Risk/Safety Is the Price of Civilizational Survival by Bryant McGill|Safety Is the Price of Civilizational Survival by Bryant McGill]] > “The first mass-casualty danger of artificial intelligence comes from a human hand holding a superhuman tool, long before any machine decides anything on its own.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public, 2026* [[reminders/Existential Risk/First Mass-Casualty AI Danger Comes from a Human Hand by Bryant McGill|First Mass-Casualty AI Danger Comes from a Human Hand by Bryant McGill]] > “We crossed the cyber threshold and we crossed the bio threshold early this year.” > **— Bill Gates**, *The Ezra Klein Show, September 29, 2026* [[reminders/Existential Risk/AI Crossed the Cyber and Bio Thresholds by Bill Gates|AI Crossed the Cyber and Bio Thresholds by Bill Gates]] > “It used to be only nation states had enough resources and capability to do these things. Now, that power has been passed into the hands of a small group just using the latest AI tools.” > **— Bill Gates**, *The Ezra Klein Show, September 29, 2026* [[reminders/Existential Risk/AI Passed Nation-State Power to Small Groups by Bill Gates|AI Passed Nation-State Power to Small Groups by Bill Gates]] ## Sources / Provenance - [White House, *National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan*, October 18, 2022](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/National-Biodefense-Strategy-and-Implementation-Plan-Final.pdf). **As of:** 2026-09-23