A House hearing highlighted rising biosecurity concerns tied to accelerating AI capabilities in biotechnology. Rep. Rick McCormick, R-Ga., said AI is lowering barriers to biological misuse by making it easier to search, organize, and analyze dangerous biological information that could be weaponized. Witness testimony pointed to experiments where biological AI models—described as trained by researchers at Stanford University and the Arc Institute—generated sequences intended to produce functional viral genomes, yielding 16 sequences reported as viable and infectious in the described work. Policymakers used the hearing to push for approaches that preserve US leadership while addressing misuse risks. The exchange underscores a growing regulatory and policy focus on the governance of AI-enabled biology, with emphasis likely to intensify around data controls, model outputs, and safeguards rather than slowing research outright.