Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
A maelstrom over AI safety kicked off earlier this week when Jacob Coxon resigned from the company, saying employees “earnestly believe it [AI] could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Concerns over the technology began to escalate earlier this year with the release of advanced models such as Anthropic’s Mythos. OpenAI also caused alarm in July when it said its models had autonomously hacked into AI group Hugging Face.
There is an expanding consensus among AI executives and biosecurity researchers that the use of the technology in biology needs to be secured and regulated as models become more advanced. Experts increasingly worry that AI could be used by terrorist groups, state actors, or lone-wolf attackers to craft biological weapons, create viruses, or unleash existing harmful pathogens.
But even if AI can be used to design a theoretical bioweapon, potential obstacles remain, such as the ability to make...
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