OpenAI Warns Its Future Models Will Have a Higher Risk of Aiding Bioweapons Development

Here's why ChatGPT needs to know how to make bioweapons

My bingo card for this month did not include OpenAI telling the world that future frontier AI models coming to ChatGPT will know how to make bioweapons or novel biothreats, but here we are. We can add this capability to the growing list of issues that give us reason to worry about a future where AI reaches superintelligence. However, it’s not as bad as it sounds. OpenAI is giving us this warning now to explain what it’s doing to prevent future v…

OpenAI warns its future models will have a higher risk of aiding bioweapons development

The company is boosting its safety testing as it anticipates some models will reach its highest risk tier.

OpenAI fears its next AI could help build bioweapons

OpenAI’s Head of Safety Systems, Johannes Heidecke, recently stated in an interview with Axios that the company’s next-generation large language models could potentially facilitate the development of bioweapons by individuals possessing limited scientific knowledge. This assessment indicates that these forthcoming models are expected to receive a “high-risk classification” under OpenAI’s established preparedness framework, a system designed to e…

OpenAI Warns Its Next AI Models May Help Create Bioweapons

OpenAI’s next artificial intelligence models might carry a higher risk of being used to help create biological weapons. The company acknowledges that if an AI model is powerful enough to make beneficial scientific or medical discoveries, it’s also capable of being used for harm. “The same underlying capabilities driving progress, such as reasoning over biological data, predicting chemical reactions, or guiding lab experiments, could also potenti…

OpenAI exec warns of growing risk that AI could aid in biological weapons development - SiliconANGLE

An OpenAI executive responsible for artificial intelligence safety has warned that the next generation of the company’s large language models could be used to facilitate the development of deadly bioweapons by individuals with relatively little scientific knowledge. OpenAI Head of Safety Systems Johannes Heidecke made the claim in an interview with Axios, saying that he […] The post OpenAI exec warns of growing risk that AI could aid in biologic…