Former Human Rights Watch executive director (1993-2022). Now senior fellow, Yale University (Law and Jackson). My book: "Righting Wrongs" (Knopf/Allen Lane).
We’re entering an era in which a A.I. can design a pathogen faster than we can create the countermeasure to fight it. This will be an especially grave issue when less-than-transparent parties are involved such as Russia’s plague research lab.