AI Could Supercharge Biological Weapons ‘Ten Times’ Scale Of COVID, Report Warns
Artificial intelligence could possibly help design biological events far deadlier than COVID, according to a new report.
Artificial intelligence could possibly help design biological events far deadlier than COVID, according to a new report.
RAND published a report Tuesday that discussed several mitigating strategies for restricting bad actors from misusing AI technology to create biological weapons. This comes as Anthropic’s Claude built proteins that locked onto 14 of 15 targets in a lab setting, according to the company’s Tuesday announcement.
AI leaders at Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic previously urged Congress to pass a law requiring DNA and RNA sellers to screen buyers and keep proper records of their orders in June, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“AI-enabled biotechnology might lower the technical, operational, and motivational barriers to creating biological weapons,” the report warned. “It might also enable devastating attacks involving enhanced or novel pathogens, including events far worse than historical pandemics that caused many millions of fatalities globally.”