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Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons
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Criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists have attempted to use Anthropic’s powerful artificial intelligence models to design missiles and bombs, create deadly pathogens and surveil dissidents, according to a threat intelligence report the company published on Thursday.
Key facts
- AI accelerationism and AI doomerism are two sides of the same coin: they both enforce the notion that an AGI superbeing will come into existence,” said Heidy Khlaaf, the chief AI scientist at the AI
- Coxon said Anthropic and its rival, OpenAI, were “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence” that would cause human extinction by 2030
- The cases we share here aren’t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and novel threat activity we’ve identified to date,” Anthropic wrote in its 154-page report
- The report comes two days after an Anthropic employee, Jacob Coxon, set off a media firestorm with his resignation
Summary
“The cases we share here aren’t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and novel threat activity we’ve identified to date,” Anthropic wrote in its 154-page report. In particular, the company detailed five case studies of scientists using its AI models in biological research. Anthropic gave dozens of other examples of threat actors using its AI models. In one of the examples of biological research, Anthropic found a scientist using Claude to work on a state-sponsored grant application to study the virus chikungunya.