It’s a nightmare scenario: A terrorist without much training uses an artificial intelligence program to engineer a supervirus combining the incubation period of HIV, the contagiousness of measles and the mortality rate of smallpox. This is a worst-case outcome for the AI revolution, the Center for AI Safety wrote in a recent report.
Large language model companies have said they’re performing their own risk assessments and working to build countermeasures to identify and prevent criminal use of their tech.
OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon, said Valthos is the first biosecurity investment that OpenAI has discussed making, though he suggested the company’s work in the area could increase.
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