While Issuing Warnings About AI-Made Bioweapons, Anthropic Quietly Set Up an AI-Run, Robot-Operated Biology Lab Here in the US
Just one week after Anthropic released a report claiming to have shut down potential bioweapons development conducted by unnamed users of its Claude AI, details have now emerged that the AI firm has also been quietly running a robotically automated and AI-operated biology lab itself. Reuters reporters uncovered the project after speaking with two anonymous sources who explained that Anthropic wants to ramp up Claude AI’s ability to coordinate robotic lab assistants in the performance of science experiments with minimal human intervention. According to Reuters, Anthropic’s new autonomous “wet lab” is operating right now somewhere in the Bay Area. (Seems fine.) The plan appears to be pitched toward possible drug development.
- ▪Just one week after Anthropic released a report claiming to have shut down potential bioweapons development conducted by unnamed users of its Claude AI, details have now emerged that the AI firm has also been quietly running a robotically a
- ▪Reuters reporters uncovered the project after speaking with two anonymous sources who explained that Anthropic wants to ramp up Claude AI’s ability to coordinate robotic lab assistants in the performance of science experiments with minimal
- ▪According to Reuters, Anthropic’s new autonomous “wet lab” is operating right now somewhere in the Bay Area. (Seems fine.) The plan appears to be pitched toward possible drug development.
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Just one week after Anthropic released a report claiming to have shut down potential bioweapons development conducted by unnamed users of its Claude AI, details have now emerged that the AI firm has also been quietly running a robotically automated and AI-operated biology lab itself. Reuters reporters uncovered the project after speaking with two anonymous sources who explained that Anthropic wants to ramp up Claude AI’s ability to coordinate robotic lab assistants in the performance of science experiments with minimal human intervention. According to Reuters, Anthropic’s new autonomous “wet lab” is operating right now somewhere in the Bay Area. (Seems fine.) The plan appears to be pitched toward possible drug development.
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