AI for bioweapons? Anthropic says Claude was asked to support making virus more ‘harmful’
In a report, Anthropic said its systems blocked a request for Claude’s assistance in authoring a grant application for scientific funding. The work discussed in the application involved gain-of-function research on the chikungunya virus.
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