SINGAPORE – Safety advocates and researchers have warned of catastrophic consequences if the rapid advancement of frontier artificial intelligence goes unchecked.For instance, AI threatens to multiply harm across bioterrorism, cyberwarfare, mass disinformation and advanced weaponry. The Straits Times unpacks these four existential threats and the push for control.BioterrorismGeneral-purpose models such as OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 can analyse scientific literature and data, reason through research problems and suggest experiments. This sophisticated capability has heightened fears that the technology could be used to develop biological weapons.More specialised tools such as OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind can also speed up drug discovery and…