Claim · 2025-12-17 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

The statement by Japan issued as document BWC/MSP/2025/WP.28 at the 2025 Meeting of States Parties states that new technologies such as genome editing technology, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence offer great benefits to humanity but, if misused, could lead to the production of biological weapons that cause devastating harm, and that there are growing concerns that these technologies are becoming available to a wider range of actors.

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What it connects

Statement by Japan (BWC/MSP/2025/WP.28) → states provision → Stated position: genome editing, synthetic biology and AI as beneficial but, if misused, able to lead to biological weapons production

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Statement by Japan (BWC/MSP/2025/WP.28)states provision ↓Stated position: genome editing, synthetic biology and AI as beneficial but, if misused, able to lead to biological weapons production

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Provision: Risk domain · provision ID bwc-japan-statement-emerging-technology-misuse
Subject version: English text of document BWC/MSP/2025/WP.28, submitted by Japan · Published 2025-12-17 · Effective date not established
Date: 2025-12-17 · publication

Scope and limitsA statement of one State Party's position, in its own conditional wording. It names no system, no actor and no capability level, and it is not a finding that any technology has been misused.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Statement by Japan (BWC/MSP/2025/WP.28)

United Nations (document of the 2025 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention), submitted by Japan · Publication date unknown

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Source excerpt

“New technologies such as genome editing technology, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence offer great benefits to humanity; however, if misused, they could lead to the production of biological weapons that cause devastating harm.”

Location in source Paragraph 5

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: United Nations (document of the 2025 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention), submitted by Japan
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 8b662b8ff4896d9509c4c5cefbe7bc40b551573fc5f032ae85fa349c1d4e2ed6). English PDF of document BWC/MSP/2025/WP.28, dated 17 December 2025; 2025 Meeting, Geneva, 15-17 December 2025. Retrieved 2026-10-28 through the documents.un.org symbol access endpoint. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 8b662b8ff4896d9509c4c5cefbe7bc40b551573fc5f032ae85fa349c1d4e2ed6, the same bytes).
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: United Nations (document of the 2025 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention), submitted by Japan, “Statement by Japan (BWC/MSP/2025/WP.28)”.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI and biosecurity (research/ai-bio). The quotation (33 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paragraph continues that there are growing concerns that these technologies are becoming available to a wider range of actors, increasing the risk of proliferation of biological weapons. No human editorial review.

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Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

Date. Date on the document; the 2025 Meeting of States Parties sat in Geneva on 15-17 December 2025.

Record ID ab-gov-bwc-japan-wp28-misuse-risk