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Anthropic banned accounts that possibly sought to use its Claude AI model to create biological weapons, the company announced Thursday, revealing findings from an investigation just days after AI experts sounded the alarm on the potential for increasingly powerful digital assistants to bring about human extinction.
Anthropic revealed the possible attempt in a report published Thursday.
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Anthropic said in a report Thursday it blocked a request for Claude’s assistance in authoring a grant application for scientific funding that would have gone toward genetic alteration research into the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus.
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