Artificial intelligence: ‘One screw-up ... and we will destroy any remaining trust the public has in science’
Artificial intelligence: ‘One screw-up ... and we will destroy any remaining trust the public has in science’
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Artificial intelligence: ‘One screw-up ... and we will destroy any remaining trust the public has in science’
Executives and biosecurity ex
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Artificial intelligence: ‘One screw-up ... and we will destroy any remaining trust the public has in science’
Executives and biosecurity experts concerned that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons
Experts note that there are limits to what AI groups can do to prepare for potential misuse. Photograph: Aran Sankar/Getty Images
Cristina Criddle
Sat Sept 05 2026 - 07:00
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Artificial intelligence groups (AI)
groups are racing to address the risk that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons, amid rising concerns that the technology’s scientific capabilities will become the industry’s next public-security threat.
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind are stepping up work on biological risk testing, access controls and other safeguards to limit misuse of advanced AI systems that they hope will speed up drug discovery, aid disease research and prevent pandemics.
The safety push reflects a growing belief among AI executives and biosecurity experts that biology may be the next field, after cybersecurity, that will need to be secured as new models become more powerful.
“Much of anything that happens in the chemical bio space, [is] very dual use. That information that you use to create a bioweapon is also used to create an antidote or a vaccine,” said Dawn Bloxwich, whose team reviews and investigates suspicious activity across Google DeepMind’s AI models.
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“If we want to see improvements in health, we’re also going to see the possibility of these things being misused,” she added.
These concerns intensified after Anthropic’s Mythos model triggered alarm this year over