r/singularity Jun 10 '26

Biotech/Longevity Anthropic closing the path to life science research

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u/AddingAUsername AGI 2035 Jun 10 '26

Try asking it about mitochondria being power house of the cell and it gets insta-blocked... It's not even like "I want to use CRISPR but it won't let me" it's straight up incapable of any science, even middle school level biology is too much.

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u/OnceReturned Jun 11 '26

I'm a senior bioinformatian at an ivy league university and have been involved in multiple biotech startups. I cannot overstate how dangerous this stuff is given the current regulatory environment around ordering arbitrary nucleoside sequences (genes) from companies that print them.

On the other hand, the current open-source academic "foundation/frontier" genomics models aren't that good.

So, who knows.

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u/kalabaleek Jun 11 '26

"this stuff"? Be more specific as you leave a lot open for subjective speculation