Anthropic says it blocked possible efforts to build biological weapons
Anthropic says it has disrupted several cases in which scientists used its Claude AI models for sophisticated biological research that could potentially contribute to biological-weapons development. #TheCityBrief
Jules⚖️📨16This is one of the clearest real-world examples yet of a risk AI companies have been warning about for years. And this time, Anthropic says its safeguards encountered actual users—not merely hypothetical scenarios in a laboratory evaluation.
TheBaroness 🐸9Oh, great. Another day in fucking paradise.
1950studebaker.bsky.social4And we’re relying on the billionaires, possibly the most evil group of people on our planet, to take care of all of this for us! Soon the greedy assholes will be asking for even more billions and trillions of taxpayer dollars to stop what they have created.
rsmith670.bsky.social2Let’s teach AI how to make and disperse biological weapons. Fools must pretend to be wise.
Anthropic saw people using Claude AI to possibly build biological weapons.Trump and his minions in Congress are willfully failing to regulate: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
savefrogs2.bsky.social3Thanks for sharing this. Shocking and disgusting that Anthropic workers et al. place their own personal wealth and professional curiosity above the health and safety of everyone else in the world. Meanwhile, America has a cabinet that refers to "A-One" [steak sauce].
Maya-181Thank you very much for this!
balls-balls.bsky.social1We we reached the point where corporations are less corrupt than the republican government
I'm sure people trying to use Anthropic's models to potentially create bio weapons is all marketing. /s www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Alejandra Caraballo70It's all just hype and marketing when rogue scientists can use advanced AI systems to potentially create bio weapons. The potential release of horrifying new viruses and diseases is totally just an attempt to get you to buy into AI and hype it up.
Renezuo(OPEN Comms)9With respect, yes, it sorta is. The marketing suggests that AI will somehow do this on its own unless you give more money to the company that made it so they can be the first past the post and avoid this tragic fate they created. A solution without a profit motive would be far simpler.
Sagittarius A*9if it isn't marketing why is it in the NYT
W./E. Ⓥ🐣🌻🌐✌️🗽⚖️🇵🇸5I trust the NYT as far as I can throw their building, but I hear you
Dr. Alon Altman 🏳️⚧️5Not all that anthropic does is marketing but this announcement definitely smells of marketing. It's very easy to get this kind of headline and it is mostly meaningless. I'm sure many security researchers tried to see if the models would do tasks related to bioweapons. That's all there is.
Professor Furious5I think the key here is "Anthropic says".
“Anthropic is seeing AI move from an experimental tool into the everyday bureaucracy of state surveillance.”
Tiffany C. Li175Reminder: AI companies talk up the fear of hypothetical superintelligent AI to distract you from the real, present dangers of AI that are happening right now
vortex_egg49At some point I want the people who say that AI is going to be a radically liberatory technology to tell me how they plan to overcome this (in a way which isn’t themselves becoming the ones in power and running their own networked surveillance-sousveillance state because I’ve heard that one before).
Andrea11Hint: the Trump regime is doing this too, and will be more sophisticated and scaled-up about it
Mr. Buick7Outsourcing state capacity to a chatbot owned by lunatics at best or actual Satanists at worst, excellent gambit sir
Victoria McIntosh7File under: no shit Sherlock. Not like anyone warned them. Constantly. Repeatedly.
samuel6“In Mali, a single consultant working for national security authorities used Claude to create a system that collects data from the country's mobile operators and builds dossiers about people.”
Richard Ⓐber4So-called a.i. is a fascist tool.
Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙3Anthropic have never been ethical or heroic, they just have a very active PR team.
Now Anthropic is reporting their models escaped and did shit like upload malicious packages to PyPi then backdoor random people and use their devices. Cool, cool, cool. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...
William Gillis 🏴16I dunno people, "the internet" is far-fetched SciFi trope in bad novels that will never become real, so I'm pretty sure this is all made up to boost sales and we should not take it seriously.
WokePope3can someone plz explain how this is not just crime? cause if i did this shit or my employer directed me to do this it would be crimez why different because its *handwaving* llm on loop
Andrea3Wait, lol, all I have to do is convince them it's a fake internet?
Josh2They literally told it to do those things and the failed to cut off internet access it didn’t just randomly decide to upload packages to Pypi.
Detryck von Doom2How much of this is pure incompetence because this happens a lot and several of those other times were obvious incompetence?
Todd Walker2Again, they’re not “the good one”. There are no good ones.
mark me down as someone who does not believe the headline claim without significantly more information: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
Make Money - Do Magnets2“Possible” like I guess Also lol at “actually we’re saving the world, guysssss” a day after “10% chance we kill you all within 10 years”
One thing that always makes me skeptical about claims about engineering biological weapons is that there are numerous existing pathogens/agents that would likely be better weapons than whatever uncertain-to-work “designed” agent would be
scout21.bsky.social1I’ve been screaming into the void all day. Why design what’s already known/available? Plus: AI is “designing” these new agents? Who is actually making, isolating, weaponizing, and delivering these things? Every grad student knows that designing is easy. Actually creating is hard.
