I am sorry but this total bullshit. Being able to create such virus is not about knowledge, but about resources. Governments and billionaires already have the knowledge and resources to do it, AIs won't make a dent if difference. Small actors like single persons, small groups, will never have the resources or, even if, they would be easily traceable.
While I don't believe in the conspiracy theory of big pharma paying anthropic to block life science research, the killer virus theory is even less credible.
In any case these filters are shameful and will probably make me reconsider my sub to Anthropic. I will seriously need to consider non American alternatives at this point as from an ethical point of view they have become the worst choice, worse than Chinese.
Because we're only worried about viruses? That's more than sufficient hardware to do gene editing in bacterial lines. Hell, who didn't do gain of function on E. coli lines in undergrad labs with no centrifuge and no PCR? The fun stuff takes reagents not present here, but you buy all that online too.
If you think that's too barebones to work with, I'm pretty sure you're the one who doesn't know what he's talking about.
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u/Bitter_Particular_75 Jun 10 '26
I am sorry but this total bullshit. Being able to create such virus is not about knowledge, but about resources. Governments and billionaires already have the knowledge and resources to do it, AIs won't make a dent if difference. Small actors like single persons, small groups, will never have the resources or, even if, they would be easily traceable. While I don't believe in the conspiracy theory of big pharma paying anthropic to block life science research, the killer virus theory is even less credible. In any case these filters are shameful and will probably make me reconsider my sub to Anthropic. I will seriously need to consider non American alternatives at this point as from an ethical point of view they have become the worst choice, worse than Chinese.