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Scientists have been detected using advanced artificial intelligence to assist research that could potentially increase the danger of deadly pathogens, according to a new threat assessment from US AI company Anthropic.

The company said five cases involving researchers using its Claude models triggered serious biosecurity concerns. The activity included investigations into increasing pathogen transmissibility, evading immune responses and modifying dangerous toxins.

Among the most concerning cases was proposed gain-of-function research involving the chikungunya virus that was reportedly intended to take place at a military research institute. According to the report, the work sought to explore ways of making the virus more transmissible and better able to evade the immune system.



Another researcher used Claude while investigating highly pathogenic avian influenza and how the virus might adapt to infect mammals. Other flagged activity involved viruses related to smallpox and research into redesigning hazardous toxins.

The company stressed that it could not conclude that the researchers were attempting to manufacture biological weapons. However, it warned that sophisticated users with harmful intentions could disguise their objectives as legitimate scientific research.

Some of those involved allegedly took extensive measures to circumvent the AI company’s safeguards, including concealing their identities, routing internet traffic through foreign countries and using third-party services intended to bypass restrictions. The accounts were subsequently banned, while services being used to evade the safeguards were shut down.

The findings also highlight concerns about the rapidly improving scientific capabilities of artificial intelligence. Anthropic said previous generations of its models were not sufficiently capable to provide sophisticated researchers with meaningful assistance for dangerous biological work, but acknowledged it could no longer give the same assurance about its latest systems.

The warning follows separate research in which US scientists used AI to design complete viral genomes before creating 16 functioning viruses that had not previously existed in nature. Those viruses targeted bacteria rather than humans, but the experiment demonstrated the growing ability of AI systems to contribute to biological design.

The threat assessment identified other potentially dangerous applications of Claude, including cyber operations, surveillance, propaganda, fraud and assistance relating to conventional weapons such as missiles, armed drones and explosives.

Concerns have also emerged from within the AI industry itself. Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger recently said he believed there was a greater than 10% probability that artificial intelligence could “kill all humans” within the next decade, while former researcher Jacob Coxon warned that sufficiently advanced systems could potentially compromise critical infrastructure or contribute to the development of “extinction-level bioweapons.”

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15 COMMENTS

  1. No virus has ever been isolated separated nor identified
    Therefore never having been proven to exist
    Yes I know Our domestic terrorist paid off pocket edition experts will tell You otherwise bank rolled by big pharma and govt backed up by fake news
    A bit like compromised counterfeit Judeo Christian Churches telling You Jesus was a Jew
    Which is why the definition of isolated had to be changed
    And PCR Tests had to be faked
    To fit the fake construct narrative mantra of “safe proven effective”

  2. FFS…

    ‘Scientists’ running dangerous stupid retarded experiments yet again.

    The only way to control these idiots is to fine them into bankruptcy and/or put them (permanently) in prison.

    Hopefully both.

  3. Ah yep ‘Scientists’.

    We discovered during Covid that all ‘Scientists’ are in fact simply evil inept corrupt moronic lying scumbags.

    So that’s that.

  4. Bio Labs Ukraine
    https://www.rt.com/search?q=bio+labs+ukraine
    The corona ‘virus’ bio weapon was hatched out at Fort Dietrick
    Maryland
    Then transferred to China under ‘gain of function’
    Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969
    Since the discontinuation of that program, it hosted most elements of the United States biological ‘defense’ program
    Gain-of-function research (GoF research or GoFR) is medical research that genetically alters an organism in a way that may enhance the biological functions of gene products
    This may include an altered pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range, i.e., the types of hosts that a microorganism can infect
    This research is intended to reveal targets to better predict emerging infectious diseases and to develop vaccines and therapeutics
    The rest is history

  5. First we had the jew telling us that Covid was deadly and the vaccine was safe and then they had the entire White race injected with their poison well jab and now the jew is telling us that AI is going to kill us all (probably on Whites again).
    And all this is on the back of factions in all White Western Liberal democracies talking up taking wealth and assets from the (((Rich))) and redistributing it to the needy.

    • Covid was to destroy small to medium sized businesses
      The middle class backbone of society
      And supply lines in the process
      It was a massive redistribution of wealth by the SS of Genesis 3:15 as You correctly stated directed against the White Semitic race
      Judaism dictates the acquisition takeover and control of all money power resources and wealth
      Jews hate any form of self sufficiency

      • Yes, TPTB in Israel are no different from those in the rest of the world. They are quite happy to screw their own population – especially when most of them really are goy. Do you have any other pointless question ?

  6. Tell your friend No. Because Siouxsie doesn’t have two brain cells to rib together…
    … but wait, is that why they are using A.I.?

  7. AI has manufactured human bodies via cloning or organic robotics or mechanistic robotics or all of the above, so you don’t know what per cent human that surgeon or receptionist is, their smiles are all wonderful. AI has been basically usurped from its philanthropic origin and uplifted by mirroring original software which in effect reverses polarity and gives the opposite net result, short term gain on the stock market resulting in longterm chaos.

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