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Opinion: AI is eroding the barriers that kept biological weapons rare

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Opinion: AI is eroding the barriers that kept biological weapons rare
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Earlier this month, Anthropic reported five cases in which people used its models for work that could support biological weapons development. The cases included help preparing a proposal for gain-of-function research on a mosquito-borne virus at a military institute and planning experiments intended to help bird flu get better at infecting mammals. Anthropic had no way to determine the intent behind this work but blocked it anyway.



That ambiguity is the problem. The same tools that scientists

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