The AI Race Against the Next Pandemic

Podcast: NatSec Tech · Special Competitive Studies Project - SCSP

Opublikowano: 2026-09-09

In this episode of NatSec Tech, Jeanne sits down with Dr. Charity Dean, founder and CEO of PHC Global and former public health officer for the State of California. They discuss why Dean calls COVID "a dry run," why she left government to build an AI-powered bio-threat intelligence platform, and how agentic AI and large language models are simultaneously lowering the bar for bad actors to engineer novel pathogens and giving defenders powerful new tools to detect and counter them. The conversation ranges from the mechanics of early-warning biosurveillance and rapid medical countermeasures, to the private sector's...