(STAT News) – A genetic blueprint created by AI can become an actual pathogen in weeks

That ambiguity is the problem. The same tools that scientists might use to design a vaccine can help design a worse pathogen. The same tools that help scientists design a drug that targets cancer cells while sparing healthy ones can be tweaked to build a drug that targets healthy cells alone. There is no need for someone to ask Claude to “build a bioweapon.” They only need to look like scientists who are working on important biological problems.

Anthropic, which shut the accounts down, has been the most public about the risks of AI to the development of bioweapons. OpenAI has also put in guardrails. (Read More)