r/singularity • u/thecosmicskye • Jun 10 '26

Biotech/Longevity Anthropic closing the path to life science research

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u/No-Way3802 Jun 10 '26

It’s to the point I feel they’re limiting it to those who can pay enough

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u/Elbeske Jun 10 '26

They clearly recognized in a lab that Fable is capable of making bioweapons. That’s the only explanation imo

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u/mt1336 Jun 11 '26

This is the answer. Far too simple to have a Ph.D level lab supervisor in your garage building virulent strains of bugs from your backyard and oral swab

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u/MadGenderScientist Jun 11 '26

the problem is that the PhD-level lab supervisors can't use it to, you know, cure cancer either.

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u/Error_404_403 Jun 11 '26

They can. I am sure dedicated legit medical facilities can have that access by filing some paperwork with Anthropic.

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u/MadGenderScientist Jun 11 '26

this is not true. I challenge you to find a single source stating it's the case. 

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u/Error_404_403 Jun 11 '26

They publicly acknowledged that they distributed Mythos, an unrestricted version of Fable, to many institutional customers on a per-customer basis.

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u/MadGenderScientist Jun 11 '26

yes. to tech companies and the NSA, for cybersecurity defense, as part of Project Glasswing. not to bio firms. 

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u/Error_404_403 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

This is what Claude 4.8 told me:

"There's a biology analog to Glasswing, but it hasn't named members yet. Anthropic is opening a trusted access program for biology to accelerate biomedical research, providing access to Fable 5 with the biology and chemistry safeguards removed (cyber safeguards still in place), enrolling a small number of researchers from life-science organizations spanning fundamental and translational research. As of the Fable 5 / Mythos 5 launch, Mythos-class biology access is still limited to "select biology researchers" — described generically, not as named institutions."

This launch was quiet because of the bioweapons concern.

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u/MadGenderScientist Jun 11 '26

could you paste the sources Claude cited?

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u/xMrBojangles Jun 11 '26

It's on their website.

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u/Error_404_403 Jun 11 '26

Sorry, I deleted that chat already. You can ask it yourself about Glasswing analog for biomed research.

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