The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech
Biotechnology and healthThe specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotechIt’s easier than ever to design killer pathogens. By Jessica Hamzelouarchive pageSeptember 18, 2026Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/MITTR | Photos GettyEXECUTIVE SUMMARY In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed.
- ▪Biotechnology and healthThe specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotechIt’s easier than ever to design killer pathogens.
- ▪By Jessica Hamzelouarchive pageSeptember 18, 2026Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/MITTR | Photos GettyEXECUTIVE SUMMARY In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dan
- ▪Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed.
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Biotechnology and healthThe specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotechIt’s easier than ever to design killer pathogens. By Jessica Hamzelouarchive pageSeptember 18, 2026Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/MITTR | Photos GettyEXECUTIVE SUMMARY In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on X: “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier.” Those posts came a few days after the AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced that he was leaving a role at Anthropic, charging that neither it nor OpenAI (where he had also worked) was acting responsibly.
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