AI could pose pandemic-scale biosecurity risks. Here’s how to make it safer

AI could pose pandemic-scale biosecurity risks. Here’s how to make it safer

AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design pathogens with worrying new properties. To prevent this, we need better collaboration between governments, AI developers and experts in biosafety and biosecurity. AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2024-11, Vol.635 (8040), p.808-811
Hauptverfasser: Pannu, Jaspreet, Gebauer, Sarah, McKelvey Jr, Greg, Cicero, Anita, Inglesby, Tom
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Sprache:eng
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Artificial intelligence
Automation
Biological research
Biosecurity
Collaboration
Comment
Evaluation
Experiments
Government
Humanities and Social Sciences
Large language models
Mistral
multidisciplinary
Pandemics
Pathogens
Science
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Toxins
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Zusammenfassung:AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design pathogens with worrying new properties. To prevent this, we need better collaboration between governments, AI developers and experts in biosafety and biosecurity. AI-enabled research might cause immense harm if it is used to design pathogens with worrying new properties. To prevent this, we need better collaboration between governments, AI developers and experts in biosafety and biosecurity.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-024-03815-2