Algemeen·NRC·10 mei

The world must stop AI from empowering bioterrorists

Artificial intelligence   ( AI ) will soon add biology to its list of superhuman abilities. Anthropic’s Mythos model—already withheld from general release owing to its hacking skills—recently succeeded on a third of the most difficult data-crunching tasks pulled together by biology experts. Mythos could do things that were beyond all of the tested humans, such as reverse-engineering a cell type from raw  DNA  data.