Anthropic warns of bids to use AI to build biological weapons
Experts urge stricter access to AI models as Anthropic reports rising misuse cases, including biological research risks.
Anthropic has disrupted several attempts to use its artificial intelligence models for research that could help develop biological weapons, the United States technology company has reported.
The firm listed the cases in a report issued on Thursday outlining misuse of its models, including the chatbot Claude, over the past eight months. Concern continues to rise over the potential dangers posed by AI development.
Anthropic said it could not determine whether the research was legitimate or malicious, as inquiry that leads to vaccines can also help engineer dangerous pathogens. The company said it erred on the side of caution.
“What we don’t know is if the research was meant to be weaponised,” Jacob Klein, Anthropic’s head of threat intelligence, told The New York Times.