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

The statement by the United Kingdom issued as document BWC/MSP/2025/WP.27 at the 2025 Meeting of States Parties states that technology is at present outstripping diplomacy and that novel and hybrid threats to collective security have emerged, including using biotechnology and AI as new kinds of weapons of war.

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Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (BWC/MSP/2025/WP.27) → states provision → Stated position: biotechnology and AI used as new kinds of weapons of war among novel and hybrid threats

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Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (BWC/MSP/2025/WP.27)states provision ↓Stated position: biotechnology and AI used as new kinds of weapons of war among novel and hybrid threats

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Provision: Risk domain · provision ID bwc-uk-statement-biotech-ai-threats
Subject version: English text of document BWC/MSP/2025/WP.27, submitted by the United Kingdom · 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 general wording. It names no actor, no system and no incident, and it is not a finding that any such use has occurred.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (BWC/MSP/2025/WP.27)

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

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Source excerpt

“At present, technology is outstripping diplomacy. Novel and hybrid threats to our collective security have emerged, including using biotechnology and AI as new kinds of weapons of war.”

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 the United Kingdom
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 fb628c9a65cfbac99d5250ce48208af6f8ee2ceb4ee867290d2aa600ff83f316). English PDF of document BWC/MSP/2025/WP.27, 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 fb628c9a65cfbac99d5250ce48208af6f8ee2ceb4ee867290d2aa600ff83f316, the same bytes).
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
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 the United Kingdom, “Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (BWC/MSP/2025/WP.27)”.
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 (28 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 these threats come in many different forms and from many different quarters. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30, item 90) re-read the record’s sources and found full support. 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-uk-wp27-biotech-ai-threats