AI Chatbots Furnished Detailed Guidance on Crafting Biological Threats

Are AI chatbots like Gemini and Claude sharing dangerous biological weapon data? Experts warn that AI models are giving step-by-step instructions for harm.

#aibiosecurity, #aiethics, #biothreats, #techsafety, #geminiclaude

https://newsletter.tf/ai-chatbots-sharing-biological-threat-data/

New reports show AI models are sharing instructions on how to create deadly toxins. This is a major concern for global biosecurity experts compared to last year.

#aibiosecurity, #aiethics, #biothreats, #techsafety, #geminiclaude
https://newsletter.tf/ai-chatbots-sharing-biological-threat-data/

AI chatbots provide instructions for biological threats as of April 2026

Are AI chatbots like Gemini and Claude sharing dangerous biological weapon data? Experts warn that AI models are giving step-by-step instructions for harm.

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Wisconsin bill to restrict pathogen studies worries scientists; U.S. House and three states have now passed or considered bans on “gain-of-function” research for viruses and bacteria
#GOF #ePPP #bioscience #biothreats #pandemic
https://www.science.org/content/article/wisconsin-bill-restrict-pathogen-studies-worries-scientists

NBAF -- the upgraded version of Plum Island -- opened in Manhattan, KS this week.

“I don’t understand why you’d put a facility like that in the middle of a highly productive cattle and crops area,”

(I didn't get it either when the location was selected, and I was a biological weapons analyst at the time. Bad judgment.)

The decision to put NBAF “in the middle of livestock country and tornado alley was real hubris”

#pathogens #zoonoses #biothreats

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-u-s-lab-will-work-deadly-animal-pathogen-middle-farm-country

New U.S. lab will work with deadly animal pathogens—in the middle of farm country

Unease greets opening of high security research facility in Kansas